Född 1730.
Fransk abbot och geograf. Gav 1780 ut 'Geographie moderne avec Introduction'. 1787 och 1791 kom nya utgåvor, korrigerade och utökade med kapten Cooks upptäckter. Medlem av 'L'Académie Royale des Scienses et Belle-Lettres' i Rouen.
Bland arbeten.
Geographie moderne avec Introduction.
Phillips.
Ca. 1815.
Engelsk kopparstickare. Inga övriga upplysningar hittade, om han inte är identisk med den J. Cross som nämns av Thieme-Becker. Från dennes hand kom särskilt heraldiska exlibris och porträtt (ca. 1820-60).
1514-1589.
Fransk-nederländsk boktryckare, tryckte i Antwerpen från 1550 bl.a. liturgiska verk och en 'Biblia polyglotta' (8 bd, 1569). P. hade bl.a. en filialofficin i Leiden, som 1586 övertogs av svärsonen F. Raphelengh. P:s efterträdare i ANtwerpen blev hans svärson Jan Moerentorf (Moretus), under vars son, Balthasar Moretus (1574-1641), P. P. Rubens knöts till företaget. - P.-trycken (o. 1600 torde finnas) utmärka sig för vacker utstyrsel och praktiskt format samt stor noggrannhet i tekniken. Tryckeriet ägde bestånd i Antwerpen till 1876, då det inköptes av staden och blev Musée Plantin-Moretus.
Christophe Plantin ombesörjde efter 1579 utgivningen av Ortelius atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'.
Bland arbeten.
Biblia polyglotta.
Svensk uppslagsbok.
Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.
Knappvädd, Succusa præmorsa - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.
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.
