(fl. 1790-1812). Publisher at the sign of the Little Midshipman, later called Navigation Warehouse No. 157 Leadenhall Street. Joined by Williams 1768 [Heather & Williams] - up to 1800; succeeded by Norie 1812.
Bland arbeten.
Clements' Thames 1791, China Seas 1799, Pilot American Ocean 1795-1801, Harbours Brit. Channel 1801, New Mediterranean Pilot 1802, Andaman & Nicobar Is. 1803, New North Sea Pilot 1807, Marine Atlas 1808, North Amer. Pilot 1810, Pilot London Spain 1810, Pilot Brazils 1811, World 1812.
Tooley
Bland arbeten.
Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines.
Often called 'Donis' from a misapprehension of the title 'Donnus' or 'Donus' an abbreviated form of 'Dominus.
A fifteenth-century cartographer, place of birth, and date of birth and death unknown. The first allusion to him of authentic date is an injunction of Duke Borso d'Este (15 March, 1466) to his referendary and privy counselor, Ludovico Casella, at Ferrara, to have the 'Cosmographia of Don Nicolò' thoroughly examined and then to determine a recompense for it. The duke, on the thirtieth of the same month, called upon his treasurers for 100 florins in gold 'to remit as a mark of his appreciation to Donnus Nicolaus Germanus for his excellent book entitled 'Cosmographia''. On 8 April, 1466, the duke again drew thirty golden florins to present to the Rev. Nicolaus, who 'in addition to that excellent Cosmography' (ultra illud excellens Cosmographie opus) had dedicated to the duke a calendar made to cover many years to come ('librum tacuini multorum annorum'). The 'Cosmographia' as preserved in the Biblioth...
FISCHER, Nicolaus Germanus in Entdeckungen der Normannen in Amerika (Freiburg, 1902), 75-90, 113 sqq. (Eng. tr., London, 1903), 72-86, 108 sqq.
Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.
Australien, Nya Guinea, Nya Zeeland. - 1870.
