SÖK KARTOGRAFER, GRAVÖRER M.FL.

VALLANCE, JOHN.

1770-1823.
Vallance arrived in Philadelphia from Glasgow Scotland early in 1791. He quickly established his reputation as one of the best engravers in the city. During this period he developed a friendship with James Thackara. In 1791 Vallance married Elizabeth Trenchard, a niece of Thackara's wife Hannah. A partnership with Thackara was established. He engraved banknotes and documents. In addition he was one of the founders, in 1774, of the Association of Artists in America. His wife Elizabeth died in 1798 at the age of 28. Four years later he married again to Margaret Pratt.

Washington Map Society.

MÜNSTER, SEBASTIAN.

1489-1552.
Tysk kosmograf. Född i Ingelheim i Hessen, död i Basel. Studerade matematik, teologi och klassiska språk i Heidelberg och Tübingen. Blev senare fransiskanermunk och föreläste vid olika läroanstalter tills han 1529 utnämndes till professor i hebreiska vid universitetet i Basel. Münster bedrev ett betydande författarskap och hade rykte om sig som den tidens mest lärde, speciellt när det gällde hebreisk litteratur. I hans klassiska studier hade även matematik och kosmografi en naturlig plats. Hans första geografiska verk, som publicerades 1530, var ett band med upplysningar till en nyutgåva av en gammal Tysklandskarta, utarbetad av kardinal Nicolas Cusanus (se denne). 1532 slutförde han ett större kartverk: 'Typus Cosmographicus Universalis'. Senare följde 'Geographia Universalis, Vetus et Nova', (5 utgåvor 1540-52) och 'Cosmographia, Beschreibung aller Lender' (1544, och en rad senare utgåvor). Böckerna är rikt illustrerade med kartor, stadskartor och andra textillustrationer i träsnitt. Det är framförallt dess...
Bland arbeten.
Typus Cosmographicus Universalis.
Geographia Universalis, Vetus et Nova.
Cosmographia, Beschreibung aller Lender.

Allg. d. Biogr. - Bagrow.Sveriges sjökartor - A. Hedin.

BURGH[T], WILLEBORD van der.

Flemish cartographer.
Brabant (Sylvaducis) used by Blaeu 1634 and later.

Tooley.

Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.

Indien - Bangladesh. - Pierre du Val 1693.

Goos, Abraham.

Biografiska uppgifter:fl. 1614-43
Abraham Goos was a noted engraver in Amsterdam who prepared plates for many maps published in well-known atlases of his time including Speed's A Prospect ofthe Most Famous Parts of the World (1627) and the 1632 edition of Speed's Atlas. He was related to the Hondius family by whom he was also employed as an engraver. In 1616 he issued a book of maps, the Nieuw Nederlandtsh Caertboeck (4to) which was re-issued in 1619 and 1625.

His son, Pieter, continued and extended his father's business and became one of the group of well-known engravers of sea charts active in Amsterdam in the middle years of the seventeenth century. In common with Colom, Doncker and Jacobsz he published a pilot guide, the Zee-Spiegel, basing it on plates obtained from Jacobsz. This went through many editions in different languages under the startling titles so popular at the time. In addition to publishing his Zee-Spiegel in the usual Parts 1 and II (Europe and Atlantic coasts) and Part III (Mediterranean) he broke new ground in preparing Parts IV and V, covering charts and sailing directions for the coasts of the West Indies and West Africa. The later editions of the Zee Atlas were published by his widow who eventually sold the publishing rights of the Atlas and of the Zee-Spiegel to Jacobus Robijn.

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