Död 1818.
Engelsk kartförläggare. Tillsammans med Robert Laurie (se denne) övertog han 1794 Robert Sayers (se denne) konsthandel och kartföretag i London. Under firmanamnet R. Laurie & J. Whittle utgav de en rad atlasverk som 'A new elegant imperial sheet atlas' (1798), 'The complete East India pilot' (1800) och 'A new juvenile atlas'. Då Laurie drog sig tillbaka från företaget 1812 blev firmanamnet ändrat till Whittle & Laurie.
Bland arbeten.
'A new elegant imperial sheet atlas.
The complete East India pilot.
A new juvenile atlas.
Dict. nat. biogr. - Phillips.
Middleton, previously a captain in the employ of The Hudson Bay Company, was financed by Arthur Dobbs to explore the north-western extremities of Hudson Bay in search of a north-western passage. The expedition, from 1741-42, should have disproved notions of such a passage, but the increasingly delusional Dobbs convinced himself that Middleton had deliberately falsified his findings, and mounted an attack on the captain’s integrity, using a series of rather dubious maps distorted to support his viewpoint.
Middleton’s chart over Hudson Bay, published before the eruption of the controversy, is of great importance as the attempt at an accurate survey of the west coast of Hudson Bay (Cumming et al, Exploration of North America, p. 188), and the only reliable printed cartographic record of the captain’s discoveries. Surprisingly, the chart was not included in Middleton’s book defending his reputation, and is now rare.
Bland arbeten.
Hudson Bay.
Sotheby's
LAFRERI [LAFRÈRIE, LAFRERY], ANTONIO.
1512-1577.
Cartographer, publisher, map and printseller born Besancon in Burgundy. Antoine du Perac Lafrèrie emigrated to Rome about 1540 and set up in business in the Via de Perione in 1544. Partner with Salamanca 1553-63, and continued alone until his death in 1577. Succeeded by Claude Duchetti. Catalogue of his publications in 1572. One of the first to issue collections of maps in atlas form, variable in contents; to the later examples he added a title page.
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Tavole moderni &c., World n.d., Europe 1560.
Northern Regions 1572.
Asia 1561.
Cyprus 1570.
Genoa 1573.
Lombardy 1564.
Malta 1565.
Rome 1577.
Milan 1573 &c.
Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.
'Ägypten Dar Fur und Abessinien.' - Leipzig 1895-98.
