Fransk geograf i slutet av 1700-talet. Det finns en rad enkla kartor av honom från åren 1753-91 men ingen hel atlas. Titeln geograf anger han själv på kartorna. Inga ytterligare upplysningar om honom har funnits, om han inte är identisk med Jean Francois Augustin Janvier de Flainville (1717-91), som var advokat till 1759, inspektör vid krigsakademin vid revolutionen 1789 och senare borgmästare i Chartres och dessutom känd arkeolog.
Nouv. biogr. gen. - Phillips. - Tooley.
d'Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon
Born in Paris July 11, 1697 – died January 28, 1782.
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (born in Paris July 11, 1697 – January 28, 1782), was both a geographer and cartographer who greatly improved the standards of map-making. His maps of ancient geography, characterized by careful, accurate work and based largely on original research, are especially valuable. He left unknown areas of continents blank and noted doubtful information as such; compared to the lavish maps of his predecessors, his maps looked empty.
Work
D'Anville's map of China and Central Asia (1734) for du Halde's 'Description geographique de la Chine', compiled based on the first systematic geographic survey of the entire Chinese Empire by a team of French Jesuits (ca. 1700)
His passion for geographical research displayed itself from early years: at age of twelve he was already amusing himself by drawing maps for Latin authors. Later, his friendship with the antiquarian, Abbé Longuerue, greatly aided his studies.
His first serious map, that of Ancient Greece, was published when ...
Bland arbeten.
Pere J. B. du Halde with maps by d'Anville, 'Description geographique de la Chine', 1735.
'Nouvel Atlas de la Chine', 1737.
'Atlas Generale', circa 1740.
'Geographie Ancienne et Abregee', 1769.
Lantmätare. 'Till år 1995 passade Riksarkivet (Latvijas Valsts vestures arhivs) i Riga på att ge ut en väggkalender med tolv vägkartor, som lantmätaren A. A. Ulrichs sammanställt 300 år tidigare'.
Kart & Bildteknik 2003:3, artikel "Från Nyen till Hiddensee. Svensk kartläggning under 1600-talet". Av Ulla Ehrensvärd.
Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734
Grevskapen Bentheim och Steinfurt. - Blaeu 1643/44.
