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 pre...
Keere, Pieter van den [Kaerius, Petrus]
1571-c. 1646.
Pieter van den Keere was one of a number of refugees who fled from religious persecution in the Low Countries between the years 1570 and 1 590. He moved to London in 1584 with his sister who married Jodocus Hondius, also a refugee there, and through Hondius he undoubtedly learned his skills as an engraver and cartographer. In the course of a long working life he engraved a large number of individual maps for prominent cartographers of the day but he also produced an Atlas of the Netherlands (1617-22) and county maps of the British Isles which have become known as Miniature Speeds, a misnomer which calls for some explanation.
In about 1599 he engraved plates for 44 maps of the English and Welsh counties, the regions of Scotland and the Irish provinces. The English maps were based on Saxton, the Scottish on Ortelius and the Irish on the famous map by Boazio. These maps were not published at once in book form but there is evidence which suggests a date of issue (in Amsterdam) between 1605 and 1610 although at...
Utförde bl.a. 1689 en karta med titeln 'General Landkort och Geographisk Afritning öfwer Westergiöthland, Dahl, Hallan och Bahuus Lähn, med der uthi liggiande Lähn, Härader, slott, städer, k˙rckior, herregårdar, prestegårdar, siöer, floder och elfver, landsväger, landemärc och härads skillnader... siergårder med des öiger, holmer, skier, hampner, och seglationer med annat som notabelt kunde giöras. Hvilket alt finnis på chartan... specificerat och med sine nampn noterat'.
Bland arbeten.
General Landkort och Geographisk Afritning öfwer Westergiöthland, Dahl, Hallan och Bahuus Lähn, med der uthi liggiande Lähn, Härader, slott, städer, k˙rckior, herregårdar, prestegårdar, siöer, floder och elfver, landsväger, landemärc och härads skillnader... siergårder med des öiger, holmer, skier, hampner, och seglationer med annat som notabelt kunde giöras. Hvilket alt finnis på chartan... specificerat och med sine nampn noterat.
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
'Limfjorden. Hals til Aalborg.' - Köpenhamn 1914.
