1790-1873.
Engelsk kartograf. Brorson till den kände kartografen Aaron Arrowsmith (se denne) och gick i lära hos honom från 1810. Vid morbroderns död etablerade han en egen kartaffär i London. Hans första publikation var en 'London Atlas', som kom ut 1834 och senare i två upplagor till. 1858 kom en ny och stor atlas med 68 kartor. Han gav dessutom ut en mängd specialkartor och utförde också kartor för flera geografiska verk. Arrowsmith var 1830 med om att grunda 'Royal Geographical Society' i London.
Bland arbeten.
London Atlas.
Dict. nat. biogr.
1676-1745. Född i Spremberg, död i Leipzig.
Tysk kopparstickare och kartogaf. Han är främst känd för sina talrika och topografiskt värdefulla översikter över Leipzig, men har även utarbetat flera kartor samt grundat ett kartförlag. Efter hans död drevs förlaget vidare under namnet 'Schreibers Erben'. Han gav själv aldrig ut någon samlad atlas men efter hans död kom 'Atlas selectus' i flera utgåvor omkring 1749.
Bland arbeten.
Atlas selectus.
Phillips. - Thieme-Becker.
Né ā Paris en 1795 est un géographe franįais.
Auguste Henri Dufour étudia avec Lapie et travailla avec lui ā plusieurs cartes du Dépot de la Marine. En 1824, il publia pour la premičre fois, sous son nom seul, une Analyse géographique de la carte de Palestine, et prit part dčs ce moment ā une foule de publications historiques ou topographiques dont il dressa et dessina les plans et les cartes. Ses ouvrages principaux sont :
* l'atlas élémentaire et universel de géographie ancienne et moderne (1828)
* plusieurs Précis de systčme planétaire et de cosmographie
* l'atlas joint ā la France illustrée de Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun (1855)
* l'atlas Dufour, atlas universel, physique, historique et politique de la France, de ses départements et de ses colonies (106 cartes). (1857)
Parmi les élčves d'Auguste Henri Dufour figure Alexandre Vuillemin.
Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.
Blue Vases, Pl. XII
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.
