1600-73 - ARNOLD COLOM (son) c. 1624-68
Jacob Colom was a printer, bookseller, chart and globe maker who set out to challenge the virtual monopoly held by W. J. Blaeu, then the only chart maker in Amsterdam. His Pilot Guide De Vyerighe Colom published in various formats and languages (with exotic tides) to meet the demands of the time was highly successful and forced Blaeu to revise and enlarge his existing chart books. In spite of Blaeu's efforts, Colom's Guide remained popular with seamen for many years and although the charts were issued in great quantity, they are now extremely rare.
1667-1727.
Engelsk kartograf. 1701 gav han i Oxford ut en atlas med titeln 'New Set of Maps of Ancient and Present Geography'. Den följdes av tre nyutgåvor, den senaste 1726. Hans kartor är mycket schematiska och enkelt ritade men likväl inte helt utan dekorationer.
Bland arbeten.
New Set of Maps of Ancient and Present Geography.
Tooley. Phillips.
Född 1664 i Marstrand, död 1740 24/1 i Karlskrona.
Kommendör och lotsdirektör. Tecknare, kartograf och kopparstickare. Son av rådmannen Thorved Nilsson S. och Margareta Mattsdotter. Student i Köpenhamn och i Lund 1686. Lotsdirektör 1697, kommendör 1717. »Idkade som ung kopparstickskonsten» (Eichhorn) och var även flitigt verksam som kartograf. Adlades 1727.
Bland arbeten.
W. VON ROSENFELDT, Navigationen eller styrmans-konsten, Sthlm 1693: hydrografisk karta över Östersjön och Kattegatt med porträttmedaljong av~Hans Wachtmeister, kpst., samt 8 tab. med geometriska figurer, etsn.
Landstigningen på Själland 1700, kpst.
Hultmark, 1944.
Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.
Stenbräken, Cystopteris fragilis - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.
GERRITSZ [GERARD, GERARDUS, GHERRITSZOON van ASSUM].
Biografiska uppgifter: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], (2) by die Lienbaens Brugh [1616], (3) Nieuwe Zijds Voorburgwal [1624], (4) Doelestraat [1627-32].
Engraved 17 Netherlands (1608?, lost)
Gulick Cleve 1610,
Spain 1612-(15),
Besch. van de Samoyeden Landt 1612,
Besch. van de Zeecusten van Ierlandt 1612,
engd. Blaeu's Lithuania 1613,
Russia 1613,
Italy 1617,
MS charts E. Indies, Pacific & c. 1617-22,
maps in Laet's Novus Orbis 1625,
Eendrachts' Land (W. Australia) 1627,
Rotario W. Indies & S. America 1628-32 MSS.
(Tooley.)
