1653-1701.
Officer, kartograf. B. var 1672-74 i utländsk krigstjänst, deltog i hela skånska kriget som fortifikationsofficer, tjänstgjorde sedan som generalkvartermästarlöjtnant i Skåne och inlade stor förtjänst om befästandet av Malmö, bevistade med statsstipendium fälttågen i Flandern 1693-94, överstelöjtnant 1695. B. var en av 1600-talets skickligaste svenska kartografer med en teknik som kartografien i allmänhet kom att uppnå först under 1700-talet.
Under skånska kriget hade B. goda tillfällen att lära känna Skånes topografi och ännu bättre under året 1680, då han drog omkring och avritade ett 50-tal skånska herrgårdar (utgivna av A. Fischer 1756). (En andra upplaga kom 1856 när Buhrmans bilder gavs ut i andra upplagan av Svecia Antiqua et Hodierna, VÖBAM's anm.). På våren 1681 fick B. i uppdrag att kartlägga Jämtland och Värmland, på hösten samma år att kartlägga Skåne. Skånekartan blev färdig 1684, en annan 1687 (original i Krigsarkivet). Den utgör den första tillförlitliga kartan över provinsen och användes a...
Bland arbeten.
Eric Dahlbergs Suecia antiqua & hodierna. Supplement,
Prospecter af åtskillige märkvärdige byggnader, säterier och herre-gårdar uti Skåne
/ ... och blifvit år 1680 aftagne, ritade och samlade af ingenieur-capitain Burman
; men nu till det allmännas tjenst, förnyade och ... på trycket utgifne år 1756 af
Abraham Fischer
Sv. Uppslag.bok 2:a uppl., band 5 1947, sp.271-72. Litt. H. Richter, "Skånes karta från mitten av 1500-talet till omkr. 1700".
(1552-1629)
One of the most famous of English mapmakers, the historian John Speed decided in 1611 to publish a volume of maps to accompany his History of Great Britain. The maps were instantly popular, running to seven editions by 1676. Sudbury and Humble contracted Jodocus Hondius to engrave the plates in Amsterdam. From 1605 to 1610 Speed sent the information to Hondius, allowing Hondius to compose these famous maps.
Sotheby's
Bokhandlare och kartutgivare. Omnämnd 1658 och 1664. Gav bl.a. ut atlaser med kartor av Nicolas Sanson d.ä. (se denne).
Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.
'Gotland.' - Stockholm 1884.
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.
