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.
Bland arbeten.
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.
GERRITSZ [GERARD, GERARDUS, GHERRITSZOON van ASSUM].
Hessel 1581-1632.
Gerritsz was apprenticed to W. J. Blaeu as an engraver before starting in business on his own account. He worked closely with Petrus Plancius and his merit may be judged by the fact that he was appointed Cartographer to the Dutch East India Company in preference to Blaeu and subsequently held the same position in a newly formed West India Company. With the new company he came into touch with Johannes de
Laet for whom he prepared a number of new maps of America in the latter's Nieuwe Wereldt published in 1625. His most important early work was a chart showing Henry Hudson's discoveries in his voyage of 1610-11: it is the first to give an outline of Hudson's Bay and indicates Hudson's belief that he had found a way to the North West Passage.
Engraver, cartographer, publisher and bookseller, b. Assum, apprenticed as engraver to Blaeu, Cartographer to Dutch E. India Co. 1617, fl. 1607; from 1612 using sign 'in de Paskaert' or 'sub signo Tabulae Nauticae'. Addresses: (1) opt Water bij die oude Brug [1609...
Tooley.
Nämnd som 'Cosmographer and Navigator in le Havre' (1613). Utförde bl.a. en karta över Atlantiska Oceanen.
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Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734
'Carte de la Mer Baltique'
