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Wytfliet, Cornelis.

fl. 1597.
Little is known of Wytfliet except that he was a native of Brabant, but there is no doubt about the importance of his only atlas, which was the first one printed to deal exclusively with America. Although its title indicated it to be a 'supplement to Ptolemy', Part 1 covered the history of the discovery of America and its geography and natural history and Part II consisted entirely of contemporary maps of America and a world map based on Mercator.

Deleuze, Jacques-Antoine-Henri


Var ansvarig för de ca 1030 artiklarna om botanik och naturhistoria i Yverdon-encyclopedin.
Bland arbeten.
Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines.

FLEURIEU, CHARLES-PIERRE CLARET de.

1738-1810.
Greve, fransk sjöofficer. Född i Lyon, död i Paris. Som ung kom han in i marinen, blev kapten 1776 och samma år hamn- och arsenaldirektör. Under krigen 1778-83 visade han sig som en mycket duktig strateg. 1790-91 var han marin- och koloniminister. Vid revolutionen fängslades han men släpptes fri och hade senare olika offentliga ställningar både under republiken och kejsardömet. 1808 blev han greve. Han gav ut flera geografiska verk, varav kan nämnas 'Découvertes des Francais en 1768 et 1769 dans le sud-est de la Nouvelle-Guinée' (1790) och 'Voyage d'un autour du monde par Etienne Marchand' (1798). 1809 kom en stor atlas över skandinaviska farvatten. 'Neptune des mers du Nord, ou Atlas du Cattégat et de la Baltique'.

Bland arbeten.
Découvertes des Francais en 1768 et 1769 dans le sud-est de la Nouvelle-Guinée.
Voyage d'un autour du monde par Etienne Marchand.
Neptune des mers du Nord, ou Atlas du Cattégat et de la Baltique.


Nouv. biogr. gen.


Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.


Orre, albinistisk tupp - Olof Rudbeck d.y.

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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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