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KLINT, ERIK GUSTAF af.

1801-1846.
Före adlandet Klint, sjöofficer, kartograf, f. 15 okt. 1801 på Karlberg, Solna, d. 30 april 1846 vid en förlisning i Mexikanska golfen. Son till Gustaf af Klint. - K. blev, knappast sexton år gammal, underlöjtnant vid örlogsflotten 1817, premiärlöjtnant 1827 och kapten 1841. Åren 1827-38 var han informationsofficer vid flottans styrmansskola i Karlskrona. Han blev led. av Krigsvet. akad. 1840. - Under många år var K. sin fader behjälplig vid utarbetandet av sjökort, och efter faderns död övertog han ledningen av det Klintska kartverket. År 1842 utgav K. 'Lärobok i navigationsvetenskapen med tillhörande nautiska och logarithmiska tabeller'. Hans nautiska tabeller voro länge välkända och allmänt brukade av sjöfarande. K. omkom som chef på korvetten Carlskrona under en cyklon utanför Kubas nordkust, då fartyget gick under med större delen av besättningen. - Gift 1829 med Laura Fredrika Silfverswärd.
Bland arbeten.
Lärobok i navigationsvetenskapen med tillhörande nautiska och logarithmiska tabeller.


Svenska män och kvinnor, band IV. Bonniers 1948.


VALCK, LEONARD.


Kart- och planschhandlare i Amsterdam. Son till Gerard Valck (se denne).


Goos, Abraham.

fl. 1614-43
Abraham Goos was a noted engraver in Amsterdam who prepared plates for many maps published in well-known atlases of his time including Speed's A Prospect ofthe Most Famous Parts of the World (1627) and the 1632 edition of Speed's Atlas. He was related to the Hondius family by whom he was also employed as an engraver. In 1616 he issued a book of maps, the Nieuw Nederlandtsh Caertboeck (4to) which was re-issued in 1619 and 1625.

His son, Pieter, continued and extended his father's business and became one of the group of well-known engravers of sea charts active in Amsterdam in the middle years of the seventeenth century. In common with Colom, Doncker and Jacobsz he published a pilot guide, the Zee-Spiegel, basing it on plates obtained from Jacobsz. This went through many editions in different languages under the startling titles so popular at the time. In addition to publishing his Zee-Spiegel in the usual Parts 1 and II (Europe and Atlantic coasts) and Part III (Mediterranean) he broke new ground in pre
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Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.



'Rosendahls Fabrikers Aktiebolags Trämassefabrik vid Trollhättan.' - Gustaf Pabst 1870-1879.


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Keere, Pieter van den [Kaerius, Petrus]

Biografiska uppgifter:1571-c. 1646.
Pieter van den Keere was one of a number of refugees who fled from religious persecution in the Low Countries between the years 1570 and 1 590. He moved to London in 1584 with his sister who married Jodocus Hondius, also a refugee there, and through Hondius he undoubtedly learned his skills as an engraver and cartographer. In the course of a long working life he engraved a large number of individual maps for prominent cartographers of the day but he also produced an Atlas of the Netherlands (1617-22) and county maps of the British Isles which have become known as Miniature Speeds, a misnomer which calls for some explanation.
In about 1599 he engraved plates for 44 maps of the English and Welsh counties, the regions of Scotland and the Irish provinces. The English maps were based on Saxton, the Scottish on Ortelius and the Irish on the famous map by Boazio. These maps were not published at once in book form but there is evidence which suggests a date of issue (in Amsterdam) between 1605 and 1610 although at least one authority believes they existed only in proof form until 1617 when Willem Blaeu issued them with a Latin edition of Camden's Britannia. At this stage two maps were added, one of the British Isles and the other of Yorkshire, the latter derived from Saxton. To confuse things further the title page of this edition is signed 'Guilielmus noster Janssonius', which is the Latinized form of Blaeu's name commonly used up to 1619.
At some time after this the plates came into the possession of Speed's publishers, George Humble, who in 1627, the year in which he published a major edition of Speed's Atlas, also issued the Keere maps as a pocket edition. For these he used the descriptive texts of the larger Speed maps and thereafter they were known as Miniature Speeds. In fact, of the 63 maps in the Atlas, 40 were from the original van den Keere plates, reworked, 16 were reduced from Speed and 7 were additional. The publication was very popular and there were further re-issues up to 1676.

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