Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772) French cartographer who worked for the French Marine Office. He was famous for his coastal charts and atlases.
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Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1581-1638) One of the most famous Dutch cartographers in history. He founded a cartographic dynasty consisting of his sons and grandsons that lasted throughout the seventeenth century. Known for his artistry, Blaeu produced a series of beautiful atlases beginning in 1630.
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Rigobert Bonne (circa 1729-1795) English cartographer who was appointed Royal Hydrographer. He was known for his marine charts, and in 1762, he published the Atlas Maritime. He also contributed to the works of others, such as Guillaume Raynal and Nicolas Desmaret.
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Emanuel Bowen (died in 1767) English engraver and map seller. He made engravings for King George II of England and Louix XV of France. He was in partnership with Thomas Kitchin from the 1750s until his death. His work is notable for the descriptive notes that he placed on his maps. He used a variety of cartographic decorative techniques, including cartouches, coats of arms, and vignettes of the towns that he mapped. After his death, his son Thomas succeeded him as the head of the family business. Sadly, neither Bowen had the ability to manage their income from the business. Emanuel died in poverty, while Thomas had the even more disagreeable fate of dying in a Clerkenwell workhouse in 1790.
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Thomas Bowen (died in 1790) English map seller and son of Emanuel Bowen. After his father's death, he took over the family business. In 1767 he issued the Atlas Anglicannus and a world map in 1777 showing the discoveries of Captain Cook. He fell into financial difficulties and died in a Clerkenwell workhouse in 1790.
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Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1691-1782) One of the leading French cartographers in the eighteenth-century. He was the publisher of over 200 individual maps, as well as several atlases, including the Atlas General which corrected the errors of the maps of de L'Isle and Sanson. His work is known for its beauty as well as its scientific accuracy.
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Carrington Bowles (1724-1793) English map publisher. He published Atlas of Road Maps and Bowles Post Chaise Companion.
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Louis Brion de La Tour (died 1803) French Engineer who held the title of Ingenieur-Geographe du Roi. He published atlases and statistical studies. Some of his most important works are the Atlas General published in 1766 and Cartes des Places Fortes et des Principaux Ports des Isles Britanniques issued in 1756.
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Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) One of the most prolific and successful engravers of sea charts in the sixteenth-century. He was born in Liege and established his business in Frankfurt. His most famous work was a series of travel guides with maps called Les Grands Voyages and Les Petits Voyages.
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Phillippe Buache (1700-1773) French cartographer and son-in-law of Guillaume de L'Isle. After de L'Isle's death, he continued to publish his father-in-law's maps. In 1754 he published the Atlas Physique which illustrated his theories on the earth's structure.
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Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684-1743) French cartographer. His most famous work was his contribution to the seven volume encyclopedia Atlas Historique published from 1705-1720 and from 1732-1739. He provided the maps, based on de L'Isle's previously published maps.
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Jacques Chiquet French cartographer. His most famous work was a small atlas, called Le Nouveau et Curieux Atlas Geographique et Historique published in 1719. He also published an atlas of France called Noveau Atlas Francais in 1719.
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Jean Baptiste Louis Clouet (1730-circa 1790) French cartographer. His Geographie Moderne was first published in 1767 and reissued until the early 1790s. From 1776-1793 he also produced maps of the individual continents.
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William Gerard de Brahm (1717-1799) Dutch military engineer and surveyor. He emigrated to Georgia in 1751 and became a colonial surveyor to King George III. In 1764 he was appointed Surveyor General of the Southern District on North America. His works were published by Thomas Jefferys, William Faden and Georges-Louis LeRouge.
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Louis Charles Desnos French cartographer in the mid-eighteenth century. In partnership with Brion, he republished maps of Sanson and Jalliot.
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Samuel Dunn English mapmaker. His maps perpetuate many of the errors of Sanson. His most notable publications include A Map of the British Empire in North America and A New Atlas of the Mundane System.
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Pierre DuVal d'Abbeville (1619-1683) French cartographer and son-in-law of Nicolas Sanson. His most famous work, an atlas consisting of over 100 maps, was published posthumously (circa 1689) by his daughter.
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William Faden (1750-1836) One of the leading English cartographers and map publishers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He was in partnership with Thomas Jefferys, and together, they supplied maps to the King of England. Faden was appointed Geographer to King George III. His most famous maps are from the American Revolution, maps of the colonies and of major revolutionary battles.
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Nicholas de Fer (1646-1720) French cartographer and publisher. Produced three major atlases specializing in Europe, particularly France. His work, while extraordinarily beautiful, was not known for its accuracy.
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Abraham Goos Dutch engraver and publisher. Related to the Hondius family and in partnership with his own son, Pieter, he prepared and engraved map plates for the Hondius firm as well as for John Speed. He published a book of maps in 1616.
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Pieter Goos (circa 1615-1675) Dutch engraver and publisher who worked with his father, Abraham. He achieved fame as an engraver of sea-charts, publishing a pilot guide called Zee-Spiegel which included charts for the coasts of West Africa and the West Indies.
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(Father) Louis de Hennepin (1670-1701) Dutch missionary. Hennepin participated in La Salle's search for the course of the Mississippi River and published highly popular books which chronicled his adventures. He was the first to use the name Louisiane on a map.
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Johann Baptiste Homann (1663-1724) Patriarch of an eighteenth-century German cartographic dynasty. Headquartered in Nuremberg, he and his family produced a succession of atlases beginning in 1702 and culminating in the Atlas Major published in 1780. He was named Geographer to the Kaiser of the Holy Roman Empire in 1715 and was a member of the Prussian Royal Academy of Science.
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Henricus (Hendrick) Hondius (1597-1651) Dutch cartographer and youngest son of Jodocus Hondius, the elder. He reissued Blaeu's World map in 1624. Along with his brother-in-law Jan Jansson, he published the last edition of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas in 1641.
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Jodocus Hondius (also called Josse de Hondt) (1563-1612) Flemish cartographer and engraver from Ghent. Hondius settled in Amsterdam in 1593 and began a map publishing business. His sons ultimately succeeded him in this business. In 1604 he purchased the plates to the Mercator Atlas. He and then his sons published this atlas until 1641. The Hondius family did a great deal to promote the acceptance of the Mercator Projection.
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Alexis Hubert Jaillot (1632-1712) The most influential French cartographer of his time. His cartographic dynasty succeeded that of Nicolas Sanson. Early in his career, after marrying the daughter of the famous map colorist Nicolas Berey, he collaborated with the heirs to the Sanson maps, eventually acquiring these maps. His maps are elaborately decorated and some were even illuminated with gold. His most important work was his Atlas Noveau, published in 1681.
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Jan Jansson (ius) (1596-1664) Dutch cartographer and son-in-law of Jodocus Hondius. A globe maker, he published an edition of Ptolemy's works in 1617, and he and his brother-in-law, Henricus Hondius, published the Novus Atlas in 1637. At Henricus Hondius' death in 1657, he inherited the Hondius publishing firm.
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Jean Javier French cartographer in themid eighteenth-century. He published his own material, but also worked in collaboration with others such as Faden and Santini.
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Thomas Jefferys (Gefferys) (circa 1710 -1771) One of the most important British map publishers in the eighteenth-century. In 1748 he was appointed Geographer to Frederick, Prince of Wales and later to King George III. An extremely prolific map publisher, particularly for maps concerning North America and the West Indies, his most notable works, American Atlas and North American Pilot, were published posthumously in 1776 and 1775 respectively.
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