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WELLS, EDGAR.

1667-1727.
Engelsk kartograf. 1701 gav han i Oxford ut en atlas med titeln 'New Set of Maps of Ancient and Present Geography'. Den följdes av tre nyutgåvor, den senaste 1726. Hans kartor är mycket schematiska och enkelt ritade men likväl inte helt utan dekorationer.

Bland arbeten.
New Set of Maps of Ancient and Present Geography.


Tooley. Phillips.

Schouten, Willem Cornelis.

1567-1625 JACOB LE MAIRE d. 1617
The voyage of Schouten/Le Maire in the years 1615-17 was one of the most important in the seventeenth century; they were the first to sail round Cape Horn (named after their home town Hoorn in Holland), disproving the long held theory that Tierra del Fuego r L'Ardante ou Flamboyante Colomne de Ia was part of a southern continent.
Subsequent accounts of the voyage, with maps, were L Colom de la Mer Mediterannee published by Schouten (1618) and Le Maire (posthumously, 1662)

Cardon, Carl Oscar.

Född 20 juli 1812 i Stockholm. Död 3 maj 1899 i Stockholm.
Carl Oscar Cardon, den föregåendes broder (Johan Elias Cardon), f. 20 juli 1812 i Stockholm, d. 3 maj 1899 därstädes. Elev hos K. D. Forssell och vid Konstakademien 1833—38. Ägnade sig åt litografisk verksamhet; hjälplärare vid Konstakademiens principskola 19 mars 1855; erhöll pension på indragningsstat från 1 jan. 1879 enligt K. brev 31 maj 1878.

Gift 1) 15 sept. 1838 med Anna Kristina Berg, f. 28 sept. 1802 eller 1804 (i Kalmar, Uppsala stift, enligt betyg från Rönö 1834), d. 14 jan. 1847, änka efter protokollssekreteraren Leonard Palmblad; 2) 30 sept. 1861 med Gustava Elisabet Liljedahl, f. 8 sept. 1813, d. 15 apr. 1896, dotter till traktören Johan Liljedahl.

I ett par gravyrer, som tillskrivas C, använder han ett maner, som erinrar om punktgravyrerna i K. D. Forssells »Ett år i Sverige», vilket tyder på, att vi här ha att spåra om än svaga intryck av den Forssellska skolan. Liksom sin äldre broder övergav C. tidigt gravyren och blev liksom denne en synnerligen produktiv litograf. I fråga om ...


Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.


Sandvita, Berteroa incana - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.

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Covens et Mortier

Biografiska uppgifter:1721 - ca 1862.
The Amsterdam publishing firm of Covens and Mortier (1721 - c. 1862) was the successor to the extensive publishing empire built by Frenchman Pierre Mortier (1661 - 1711). Upon Mortier's death in 1711 his firm was taken over by his son, Cornelius Mortier (1699 - 1783). Cornelius married the sister of Johannes Covens (1697 - 1774) in 1821 and, partnering with his brother in law, established the Covens and Mortier firm. Under the Covens and Mortier imprint, Cornelius and Pierre republished the works of the great 17th and early 18th century Dutch and French cartographers De L'Isle, Allard, Jansson, De Wit, and Ottens among others. They quickly became one of the largest and most prolific Dutch publishing concerns of the 18th century. The firm and its successors published thousands of maps over a 120 year period from 1721 to the mid-1800s. During their long lifespan the Covens and Mortier firm published as Covens and Mortier (1721-1778), J. Covens and Son (1778 - 94) and Mortier, Covens and Son (1794 - c. 1862)

Under the heading Pieter Mortier we give some details of the extensive publishing business which he built up in Amsterdam and which, after his death, was subsequently taken over by his son, the above-named Cornelis. In 1721 Cornelis married the sister of Johannes Covens and in the same year he and Johannes entered into partnership as publishers under the name Covens and Mortier which, with its successors, became one of the most important firms in the Dutch map publishing business.
Their prolific Output over the years included reissues of general atlases by Sanson, Jaillot, Delisle, Visscher, de Wit (whose stock they acquired) and others (often with re-engraved maps), atlases of particular countries including Germany, England and Scotland and others in Europe, pocket atlases, town plans and, from about 1730 onwards, a series under the title Nieuwe Atlas, some consisting of as many as 900 maps by various cartographers and publishers. As there is no conformity about these volumes they were presumably made up to special order and only general details of publication can be quoted in a work of this size.

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