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...
Engelsk bokhandel- och förlagsfirma grundlagd i London 1724 av Thomas Longman (se denne). Bland förlagets författare under den första tiden finner vi David Hume - en senare innehavare av Thomas Norton Longman (1771-1842). Under hans tid möter vi Walter Scott, Thomas Moore m.fl. Förlagets produktion spände även över kartor, men de verkar ha varit i mer begränsad skala. Under årens lopp har firman övertagit flera andra förlag. Under firmanamnet Longmans, Green & Co. driver det idag en världsomspännande verksamhet med filialer över hela det brittiska imperiet.
Dict. nat. biogr.
Död 1858.
Se under Robert Laurie.
Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.
'Ostsee Dänische Küste Grosser Belt Nördlicher Teil'. 1945.
