KARTOGRAFI OCH BILDLORE

SCULTETUS [SCULTETO, v. SCHILLE, SCHULTZ], BARTHOLOMEUS.

1540-1614.
Cartographer of Görlitz.

Bland arbeten.
Meissen & Lausitz 1568. Used by Ortelius 1573, Blaeu &c.
Ober & Nieder Lausitz, de Jode 1578.

Tooley

LOOTS, JOANNES.

Ca. 1665-ca. 1735.
Holländsk bokhandlare. Han omtalas 1691 som 'maatematische instrumentmaaker' i Amsterdam där han två år senare blev bokhandlare. Hans affär omfattade även konst- och karthandel. Han gav 1697 ut 'Het nieu en compleet Pas-kaert-Boeck van de Noord- en Oostzee'. Ca 1700 gav han ut en atlas med 36 kartor och 1719 'Nieuwe groote Spiegel'. 1721 utannonserade han ett stort, nytt 'Paskaert van de Straats Davids

A mathematical and nautical instrument maker, Loots also published manuals on navigation. For a time he was in partnership with an engraver, A de Winter, and an author of text books on charts, Claes de Vries, who had ambitions to publish a very large sea atlas of some 200 charts but this was never completed on the scale contemplated. Some of their charts were sold to Gerard van Keulen and others were used in a sea atlas published in 1697. Charts by Loots also appear in a number of other pilot books and sea atlases of the time.
Bland arbeten.
Het nieu en compleet Pas-kaert-Boeck van de Noord- en Oostzee.
Nieuwe groote Spiegel.
Paskaert van de Straats Davids.

Kleerkooper.

HOEG, ANDERS.

Ca. 1727-96. Avled i Porsgrunn, stad i Telemark fylke.
Norsk skeppare och navigationslärare. Fick borgerskap 1755 i Porsgrunn som köpman och skeppare. 1781 utnämnd till navigationsinformator i Porsgrunn och 1790 anställdes han som navigationseximinator i Langesunds tulldistrikt. Förutom ett sjökort över Nordsjön gav han 1787 ut 'Et nyt, og i Mange maader Forbedret Plat Soe Carte over den syndre Deel af Nord-Soen', och möjligen även en karta över Kattegatt 1869. 1790 arbetade han med en Skagerack-karta.
Bland arbeten.
Et nyt, og i Mange maader Forbedret Plat Soe Carte over den syndre Deel af Nord-Soen.

Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.

Karta öfver Nicaragua och Costa Rica. - ca 1890.

Porträtt på Gerard Mercator och Jodocus Hondius.

"Striking image showing Mercator and Hondius in their idealized workshop.

This famous portrait of two of the most important mapmakers during the Golden Age of Dutch cartography was engraved by Coletta Hondius, as a tribute to her late husband, shortly after his death. Gerard Mercator is shown with his successor, Jodocus Hondius, seated at a table surrounded by the implements of their trade. The fine portrait is set within an elaborate strapwork framework that includes a wall map of Europe.

Gerard Mercator is renowned as the cartographer who created a world map representing new projections of sailing courses of constant bearing as straight lines—an innovation which, to this day, enhances the simplicity and safety of navigation. In his own day, Mercator was the world's most famous geographer. He created a number of wall maps early in his career, as well as one of the earliest modern world Atlases in 1595. Although this was the first appearance of the word Atlas in a geographical context, Mercator used it as a neologism for a treatise on the creation, history and description of the universe, not simply a collection of maps. He chose the word as a commemoration of King Atlas of Mauretania, whom he considered to be the first great geographer.

Jodocus Hondius was a Dutch engraver and cartographer. He is best known for his early maps of the New World and Europe and for continuing publication of Gerard Mercator's World Atlas. He also helped establish Amsterdam as the center of cartography in Europe in the 17th century. In England, Hondius publicized the work of Francis Drake, who had made a circumnavigation of the world in the late 1570s. In 1604, he purchased the plates of Gerard Mercator's Atlas from Mercator's grandson and continued publication of the Atlas, adding his own maps over the next several decades. Hondius later published a pocket version Atlas Minor."

Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc.