1632-94. Född i Sachsen, död i Berlin.
Tysk-svensk historiker. Han studerade rättsvetenskap och filosofi i Leipzig och Jena, tog magistergraden 1656 och blev 1661 professor vid universitetet i Heidelberg. 1667 kallad att bli professor i natur- och folkrätt i Lund, och 1677 utnämnd till svensk rikshistoriograf. Han utgav en rad juridiska och historiska skrifter. Av störst intresse i detta sammanhang är det stora verk om Karl X Gustaf, 'De rebus a Carolo Gustavo, Sueciae regis, gestis commentariorum libri septem' som kom 1696. Verket är illustrerat med en mängd kartor och bilder i kopparstick.
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De rebus a Carolo Gustavo, Sueciae regis, gestis commentariorum libri septem.
Sv. män och kv.
1725-94.
Engelsk konsthandlare och kartförläggare. Han gav bl.a. ut 'Atlas Britanniquee' (1766), 'English Atlas' (1787) samt en atlas med 41 kartor tryckta under åren 1757-94. Förutom kartorna känner man till en rad koppartryck som har hans namn och adress men däremot inga som han själv utfört.
Sayer hade sin affär på No. 53 Fleet Street i London.
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Atlas Britanniquee.
English Atlas.
The Seven United Provinces, with Their Roads and Divisions.
Phillips. - Thieme-Becker.
Often called 'Donis' from a misapprehension of the title 'Donnus' or 'Donus' an abbreviated form of 'Dominus.
A fifteenth-century cartographer, place of birth, and date of birth and death unknown. The first allusion to him of authentic date is an injunction of Duke Borso d'Este (15 March, 1466) to his referendary and privy counselor, Ludovico Casella, at Ferrara, to have the 'Cosmographia of Don Nicolò' thoroughly examined and then to determine a recompense for it. The duke, on the thirtieth of the same month, called upon his treasurers for 100 florins in gold 'to remit as a mark of his appreciation to Donnus Nicolaus Germanus for his excellent book entitled 'Cosmographia''. On 8 April, 1466, the duke again drew thirty golden florins to present to the Rev. Nicolaus, who 'in addition to that excellent Cosmography' (ultra illud excellens Cosmographie opus) had dedicated to the duke a calendar made to cover many years to come ('librum tacuini multorum annorum'). The 'Cosmographia' as preserved in the Biblioth...
FISCHER, Nicolaus Germanus in Entdeckungen der Normannen in Amerika (Freiburg, 1902), 75-90, 113 sqq. (Eng. tr., London, 1903), 72-86, 108 sqq.
Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.
Älväxing, Sesleria coerulea - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.
Grasset de Sainte-Sauveur, Jaques
Biografiska uppgifter:Montreal 1757 - Paris 1810.
A late eighteenth and early nineteenth century French (Canadian) artist, writer and diplomat, Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur left Montreal in 1764 and began his studies with the Jesuits of Sainte-Barbe, in Paris. His first published book, Costumes civils de tous les peoples connus, dates from 1784. It deals with his lifelong passion of chronicling the peoples of other lands, particularly in remote areas. His other works include, Tableaux cosmographiques de l'Europe, l'Asie, l'Afrique et l'Amerique (1787), L'Antique Rome (1795), Encyclopedie des voyages (1796), and Voyage picturesque dans les autres parties du monde (1806). Groenlandais (Native of Greenland) was engraved by Labrousse for the c. 1797 publication, Costumes de different pays. Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur both designed the engravings and wrote the text for all of these publications. Besides being an artist and writer Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur also led an active diplomatic career. He served as France's vice-consul in Hungary and elsewhere. Today the art of Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur may be found in the following collections; the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, the National Library of Australia, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand, and the New York Public Library.
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Costumes civils de tous les peoples connus (1784), Tableaux cosmographiques de l'Europe, l'Asie, l'Afrique et l'Amerique (1787), L'Antique Rome (1795), Encyclopedie des voyages (1796), Voyage picturesque dans les autres parties du monde (1806), Costumes de different pays (c. 1797).
