1653-1715.
In 1680 was given special endorsement from the Dutch state to print and publish sea charts and sailing instructions. The van Keulen family's best-known work is Nieuwe Groote Ligtende Zee-Fakkel a world atlas in five volumes, published by Johannes's son Gerard and subsequently by Gerard's children and grandchildren.
As we have noted in other biographies in this chapter, the Dutch produced a remarkable number of enterprising and prolific map and chart makers but not even the Blaeu and Jansson establishments could rival the vigour of the van Keulen family whose business was founded in 1680 and continued under their name until 1823 and in other names until 1885 when it was finally wound up and the stock dispersed at auction. Throughout the history of the family, the widows of several of the van Keulens played a major part, after their husbands' deaths, in maintaining the continuity of the business.
The firm was founded by Johannes van Keulen who was registered as a bookseller in Amsterdam in 1678. In 16...
Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.
1774 - 1857
Turner was a very acomplished and productive english engraver and draughtsman. He worked for the great London print publisher Boydell.
Hammarlund
Född 9 sept. 1758 i Hälsingland.
Svensk tjänsteman på S:t Barthélemy, högmålsbrottsling, upptogs som fader- och moderlöst barn af badarmästaren, sedermera stadskirurgen Jakob Tjäder i Stockholm, hvilken lät honom utbilda sig i kirurgi.
F. åtföljde 1783 som skeppskirurg ett handelsfartyg till Nord-Amerika, tjänstgjorde efter återkomsten några månader som underkirurg vid Sexafimerlasarettet i Stockholm och sändes 1784 som t. f. läkare till den nyförvärfvade svenska besittningen S:t Barthélemy. Där fingo hans talanger en mångsidig användning. Sålunda uppgjorde han genast efter framkomsten 1785 stadsplan för staden Gustavia, utnämndes 1786 till guvernementsmedikus, upprättade en specialkarta och jordebok öfver ön och utsågs 1799 till landtmäteridirektör därstädes. Genast vid öns öfverlämnande åt svenskarna 1785 ställdes han vid guvernörens sida som guvernements-sekreterare. Han författade äfven och offentliggjorde (bl. a. i Vet. akad:s handlingar) flera vetenskapliga uppsatser om öns flora och hälsoförhållanden samt hemsände där gjorda naturh...
Nordisk Familjebok, 2:a upplagan. Jfr H. N. (Hugo Nisbeth), "En högmålsfråga på Barthélemy" (i "Ny ill. tidn.", 1877, s. 62, 71, 78), och E. 0. E. Högström, "S. Barthélemy under svenskt välde" (1888), där emellertid redogörelsen för den Fahlbergska processen är ofullständig och missvisande.
Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936
'Map of China and Japan with adjacent parts of Soviet Russia...' - Stanford 1930.
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.
