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WALCH, JOHANN.

1757-1824.
Kartograf och kartförläggare.
Bland arbeten.
Kriegsschauplatz oder Graenzkarte zwischen Deutschland u. Franckreich... ca 1795.

Covens et Mortier

1721 - ca 1862.
The Amsterdam publishing firm of Covens and Mortier (1721 - c. 1862) was the successor to the extensive publishing empire built by Frenchman Pierre Mortier (1661 - 1711). Upon Mortier's death in 1711 his firm was taken over by his son, Cornelius Mortier (1699 - 1783). Cornelius married the sister of Johannes Covens (1697 - 1774) in 1821 and, partnering with his brother in law, established the Covens and Mortier firm. Under the Covens and Mortier imprint, Cornelius and Pierre republished the works of the great 17th and early 18th century Dutch and French cartographers De L'Isle, Allard, Jansson, De Wit, and Ottens among others. They quickly became one of the largest and most prolific Dutch publishing concerns of the 18th century. The firm and its successors published thousands of maps over a 120 year period from 1721 to the mid-1800s. During their long lifespan the Covens and Mortier firm published as Covens and Mortier (1721-1778), J. Covens and Son (1778 - 94) and Mortier, Covens and Son (1794 - c. 1862)
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PERINGSKIÖLD, JOHAN.

Född 6 oktober 1654 i Strängnäs, död 24 mars 1720 i Stockholm.
Fram till adlandet 1693 Peringer, fornforskare. Yngre bror till orientalisten Gustaf Peringer, adlad Lillieblad.
Johan Peringer blev student i Uppsala 1677, antogs 1680 till 'ämnesven' vid Antikvitetskollegium och blev 1682 kanslist. Han erhöll sedan i uppdrag att i sällskap med Johan Hadorph göra resor i landsorten för att uppleta och avteckna gamla minnesmärken och runstenar. Då samlades det första materialet till det stora runstensverk, som längre fram utgavs under namn av Bautil.
Sedan han 1689 blivit assessor i Antikvitetskollegiet, ägnade Peringer sig huvudsakligen åt samlandet av ett svenskt diplomatarium samt genealogier. 18 folianter förstördes visserligen vid slottsbranden 1697, men arbetena gjordes om, och han lämnade efter sig betydande, hos Vitterhetsakademien förvarade avskriftssamlingar ('Bullarium', m.m.; se art. Svenskt Diplomatarium). 1693 blev Peringer efter Hadorph sekreterare vid Antikvitetsarkivet och riksantikvarie samt adlades samma år med namnet Peringskiöld. Han var 1698-1711 ä...


Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.


Häger - Olof Rudbeck d.y.

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Verden, Karl van.

Carl Van Verden (fl. c. 1718 - 1730) was a Dutch seaman in the employ of the Russian Navy during the early 18th century. Van Verden is best known for his important 1719 - 1721 mapping of the Caspian Sea, which was the most sophisticated and accurate that had been issued to date. A significant cartographic achievement, Van Verden's work on the Caspian led directly to Peter the Great's 1722 invasion of Baku and Derbent and Russian hegemony in the region. Despite his achievements in the Caspian, Van Verden was later passed up by the Tzar in favor of Vitus Behring for the commission to discover a Northeast Passage through the Russian Arctic.

Around 1718 the Russian Tzar, Peter the Great, sponsored a number of cartographic expeditions to the farthest reaches of his vast empire. Most of these were headed up by Dutch navigators, the most experienced and mercenary of the era. Carl Van Verden, a Dutch seaman, was commissioned as a Russian naval officer and assigned the task of mapping the Caspian Sea. Though well known since antiquity the world’s largest lake was largely ignored by surveyors until Van Verden’s work in the early 18th century. Van Verden’s work had significant political ramifications. Peter the Great, Russia’s most expansionist Tzar, was determined to make the Caspian a “Russian Lake” and invaded the region in 1722 seizing Derbent and Baku.

Copies of Van Verden’s work eventually made their way to Paris via Nicholas de L’Isle, brother to the more famous cartographer G. de L’Isle. Geographers in Paris quick recognized the importance of the work and the era most significant cartographers and map publishers, including Homann, De L’Isle, Moll, and Covens and Mortier, were quick to copy and publish their own variants of the Van Verden chart. This example is of the more obscure such charts. Published in Paris around 1730, this map offers a number of important elements. All text is in both French and transliterated Russian, so “Bulsebek” becomes “Usbech” and “La Mer Caspie” becomes “More Gualenskoi”, etc. Many of the mountains along the lake’s western and southern shores are noted and curiously rendered with an unusual lake-centric orientation. Also noted are the Caspian’s various reefs, shoals, sandbars, and other undersea dangers.
Bland arbeten:
Carte Marine de la Mer Caspiene.

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