Bland arbeten.
Plan de la ville de Peking levee en 1817 (title repeated in Russian). St. Petersburg, (c. 1815) 1220 x 960 mm.
A rare map of the city published in St Petersburg in the early part of the nineteenth century. The plan shows details of the city walls, gates, streets, waterways, lakes, palaces, buildings and temples. Although mentioned in Cordier, little detail is given, but it does appear to be a source map for a number of subsequent maps published through the nineteenth century.
The Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Peking was founded in 1727. The Emperor K’Ang His gave them a temple in the north-west corner of the city. According to Cordier a good deal of Scientific and Sinological work was done at the mission.
MASSA [MASSART, MASSAERT], ISAAC.
Baptized October 7, 1586 in Haarlem, died 1643.
Dutch cartographer and traveller to Moscow.
Isaac Abrahamszoon Massa was a Dutch grain trader, traveller and diplomat, the envoy to Muscovy, author of memoirs witnessing the Time of Troubles and the maps of Eastern Europe and Siberia. Massa's experience in and knowledge of Muscovy transformed him into a Dutch 'Kremlinologist.' The Isaac Massa Foundation in Groningen aims to stimulate scientific and cultural contacts between the Russian Federation and the Netherlands.
Isaac Massa was born in a wealthy silk merchant's family that relocated from Liege to Haarlem before his birth. His ancestors could have been Italian huguenots who fled their homeland in the beginning of the Reformation. The family surname was also known as Massart, Massaert.
In 1601 Isaac left Haarlem for Moscow to assist the family trade. Isaac has been witness to the second half of Boris Godunov's reign that evolved into a civil war now known as the Time of Troubles. He survived the capture of Moscow by False Dmitriy I and left Russi...
Bland arbeten.
Plans of Moscow 1610, 1618;
N. Russia 1612 and
South Russia, used by Blaeu & Jansson.
Tooley.
Född 1700, dp 2/2, trol. i Malungs sn (Kopp.), där samtliga kyrkböcker för detta år brunnit, död 1755 23/2 i Stockholm (Klara).
Kopparstickare och kartograf. Konduktör vid Fortifikationen. Ingenjör. Son av komministern Petrus B. och Elisabet Persdotter. Ingenjör vid Lantmäterikontoret och föreståndare för dess tryckeri 1739
Bland arbeten.
A. GIESE, Prospect af Stockholms stad, jämte deviser, hörande till frögdebetygelsen vid K. Fredriks hemkomst från Hessen, 1731, kpst.
GRÖNWALL, De lacu Siljan, diss., resp. O. Silieström, Uppsala 1730: Siön Sillian, kpst.
Karta över Uppland. 1742.
Karta över Västmanland, 1742.
Vägvisare til och ifrån alla städer och namnkunnige orter uti Svea och Götha riken samt storfurstendömet Finland, Sthlm 1743.
Karta över Närke. 1745
Karta över Svea och Göta riken med Finland och Norrland, 1747.
Karta över Stockholm med dess malmar och förstäder, 1751.
Karta över Skåne, 1752.
Vägkartor över Sverige och Finland.
Hultmark, 1944.
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
Nederländerna. - F. Timmermans ca 1900.
