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Biografier.

LAFRERI, ANTONIO.

1512-1577.
Cartographer, publisher and printer of maps and graphic art. Born in France, Lafreri moved to Rome in 1540 where he launched a business in 1544. His great triumph came in 1572 with the publication of a catalogue including a reduced copy of Olaus Magnus's famous Carta Marina.


Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.

BOWEN, EMANUEL.

Död 1767.
Engelsk kartograf. Han började sin verksamhet som kartritare omkring 1720, utgav 1744-47 'Complete System of Geography' med 70 kartor, 1752 'Complete Atlas, or Distinct View of the Known World', 1758 'Atlas Minimus' och 1767 'Large English Atlas'. Han utförde även kartor för olika historiska verk och reseskildringar, och var kartgravör både för Kung George II av England och Ludvig XV av Frankrike.
Bland arbeten.
Complete System of Geography.
Complete Atlas, or Distinct View of the Known World.
Atlas Minimus.
Large English Atlas.


Dict. nat. biogr. [Ths.B.] - Phillips. - Tooley.

YOUNG, JAMES H.


American engraver with Delleker.

James H. Young har också graverat en världskarta 'The World on a Globular Projection...' av D. H. Vance som kom ut i Philadelphia c:a 1830. Kartan är känd i bara två exemplar, ett finns hos Cornell University i staten New York och ett fanns hos VÖBAM i Stockholm, numera hos Library of Congress.


Bland arbeten.
Varle's United States, 1817.
Finley's North America, 1826.
Indiana 1834, Carolinas 1835, Virginia, 1837.
Mitchell's National Map of American Republic, 1846.
Kentucky, 1850.
The World on a Globular Projection...


Tooley. RdeT.


Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936


Album Vilmorin 1857. - Elisa Champin.

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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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