Engelsk kopparstickare i slutet av 1600-talet. Han graverade kartor för atlaser och geografiska verk, av vilka kan nämnas J. Sellers 'Atlas maritimus', ett flertal utgåvor från ca. 1670, J. Speeds 'The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain' (1676), Richard Blomes 'Cosmography' (1682 och W. Pettys 'A geographical Description of ye Kingdom of Ireland' (1689). Den sistnämnda var han även, tillsammans med J. Seller (se denne), förläggare för.
Bland arbeten.
Atlas maritimus.
The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain.
Cosmography.
A geographical Description of ye Kingdom of Ireland.
Ph. - Tooley.
fl. 1785-1809.
Holländsk kartograf i slutet av 1700-talet. Han gav 1792 ut en atlas med 36 kartor, en stor del av dessa var nyutgåvor av äldre kartografers arbeten.
A bookseller and publisher who reproduced a small number of maps copied from his predecessors.
Phillips.
d'Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon
Born in Paris July 11, 1697 – died January 28, 1782.
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (born in Paris July 11, 1697 – January 28, 1782), was both a geographer and cartographer who greatly improved the standards of map-making. His maps of ancient geography, characterized by careful, accurate work and based largely on original research, are especially valuable. He left unknown areas of continents blank and noted doubtful information as such; compared to the lavish maps of his predecessors, his maps looked empty.
Work
D'Anville's map of China and Central Asia (1734) for du Halde's 'Description geographique de la Chine', compiled based on the first systematic geographic survey of the entire Chinese Empire by a team of French Jesuits (ca. 1700)
His passion for geographical research displayed itself from early years: at age of twelve he was already amusing himself by drawing maps for Latin authors. Later, his friendship with the antiquarian, Abbé Longuerue, greatly aided his studies.
His first serious map, that of Ancient Greece, was published when ...
Bland arbeten.
Pere J. B. du Halde with maps by d'Anville, 'Description geographique de la Chine', 1735.
'Nouvel Atlas de la Chine', 1737.
'Atlas Generale', circa 1740.
'Geographie Ancienne et Abregee', 1769.
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
Polcirkeln. - Blaeu 1643/44.
