Bordone’s atlas of islands, containing a double-page mappamundi and a large aerial view of Venice. It was previously published in 1528 and 1534 by Niccoló Zoppino and then again in 1547 by Frederico Torresano, and the original woodcuts were used for these later editions. Bordone (c. 1450-1524), a documented Paduan miniaturist, spent most of his working life in Venice, designing woodcuts as well as acting as publisher for several works, and his name has been associated with the illustration of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.
Sotheby's
1573-1635. Född i Tournon dans le Vivarais, död i Paris.
Fransk författare. Blev i ung ålder ett känt namn i de litterära kretsarna i Paris och gav 1599 ut en diktsamling och ett epigram. Senare vigde han sitt liv åt militärtjänsten. Hans viktigaste verk, 'Estats et Empires du Monde'), utkom 1626. Det blev översatt till latin med titeln 'Archonontologia cosmica' och behöll denna titel i en rad utgåvor på olika språk. Vidare kan nämnas 'Origines de tous les Ordres Militaires' 1635. (Nouv. biogr. gen.)
Bland arbeten.
Estats et Empires du Monde. (Archonontologia cosmica).
Origines de tous les Ordres Militaires.
Engelsk kartförläggare under början av 1700-talet. - Se MOUNT & PAGE.
Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734
Kina, Japan, Indien, Sydostasien. - Ortelius 1570.
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.)
