containing the positions of more than 17,000 stars, andwas one of the last scientific astronomic atlases todepict the tranditional figures for constellations.Wellcome 338.Stock: 29658217. Malthe Conrad Bruun. [facsimilewriting....signed at end. 'Lund...apr.1798M:C:Bruun.']Fournier del. Harald Jensen lith. [n.d. c.1800.]Lithograph. 180 x 107mm (7 x 4¼"). £70Conrad Malth-Brun (1755-1826) the Danish-Frenchgeographer, cartographer, journalist and map publisher.In 1800 he wrote his geography treatise with the helpof Edme Mentelle, a professor at the Ecole Normale;together they produced 'Geographie mathematique,physique et politique de toutes les parties du monde'.Stock: 29755218. Thomas Bugge. Kön: Dän: Just: Rath,Professor d. Mathematick u Astronomie an derK. Universität zu Kopenhagen, und bey derKönigle. Marine. Mitglied mehrererAkadem.d.Wissenschaften.[German.] [n.d. c.1810.]Stipple with large margins. Plate 133 x 82mm (5¼ x3¼"). £120Thomas Bugge (1740-1815) the Danish astronomer,mathematician and surveyor. He was appointedprofessor of mathematics and astronomy at theUniversity of Copenhagen. He was very imporant inthe development of economic surveying in Denmarkand between 1765-77 he was given to the task to mapthese developments, which was part of the RoyalDanish Academy's 80-year work on the mapping ofDenmark in scale 1:120000.The portrait was published in 'AllgemeineGeographische Ephemeriden' (Universal GeographicalEphemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuchet al.Stock: 29732219. César-François Cassini de Thury ErsterHerausgeber des grossen Atlas von Frankreich.geb. zu Paris d.17 Junÿ 1714, gest, d,4 Sept.1784.[Weimar: n.d., c.1808.]Stipple with large margins. Plate 140 x 90mm (5½ x3½"). £120César-François Cassini de Thury (1714-1784), famedfor his work on a huge topographical map of France,one of the landmarks of cartography, started in 1744.The father and son, confusingly both named Jean-Dominique Cassini, were both noted astronomers.The portrait was published in 'AllgemeineGeographische Ephemeriden' (Universal GeographicalEphemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuchet al.Stock: 29551220. Jean.Domin. Cassini. geb. zu Perinaldobey Nizza, den 8 Jun. 1625 gest. zu Paris d. 14Sept. 1712.C. Westermayr f. [Weimar: n.d., c.1808.]Stipple. Plate 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½"). Trimmedwithin plate on right. £120Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625-1712) an Italianmathematician and astronomer, who, on taking upFrench citizenship, changed his name to Jean-Dominique. He discovered four of the moons and theCassini Division in the rings of Saturn in 1675. Incartography he was the first to make successfulmeasurements of longitude by the method suggested byGalileo, using eclipses of the satellites of Jupiter as aclock, a method used to measure France accurately forthe first time. On hearing that France was considerablysmaller than expected, Louis XIV joked that Cassinihad taken more of his kingdom from him than he hadwon in all his wars.The portrait was published in 'AllgemeineGeographische Ephemeriden' (Universal GeographicalEphemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuchet al.Stock: 29602221. Jean.Domin. Cassini. Geb. d.30 June1748 auf dem Observatorium zu Paris.Cless del. Westermayr f. [Weimar: n.d., c.1808.]Stipple with large margins. Plate 140 x 90mm (5½ x3½"). £120Jean-Dominique Cassini (1625-1712), a Frenchastronomer, born at the Paris Observatory and later itsdirector, son of César-François Cassini de Thury andgrandson of Giovanni Domenico Cassini. He workedextensively on Longitude, publishing an account oftesting Pierre Le Roy’s chronometer in 1770, andcompleted his father's monumental map of France,published 1793. However his career came to an endduring the French Revolution. Facing opposition fromthe National Assembly, he resigned, was brieflyimprisoned, then spent the last fifty years of his life inretirement. He died aged 97.The portrait was published in 'AllgemeineGeographische Ephemeriden' (Universal GeographicalEphemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuchet al.Stock: 29603222. P.G. Chanlaire.C. Westermayr fecit, 1801. [Weimar: n.d., c.1808.]Stipple with small margins. Plate 140 x 90mm (5½ x3½"). £95Pierre Gilles Chanlaire (1758-1817), Frenchcartographer, issued 'Tableau général de la nouvelledivision de la France', 1802, 'Atlas de la France endépartements (en 86 cartes)', 1818.The portrait was published in 'AllgemeineGeographische Ephemeriden' (Universal GeographicalEphemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuchet al.Stock: 29606
223. Philipp Cluver. Geboren zu Danzig[German.] [n.d. c.1810.]Stipple with large margins. Plate 127 x 82mm (5 x3¼"). £120Philipp Clüver (1580-1622) the early modern Germangeographer and historian. His 'Introductio in universamgeographiam' (1624) was the first comprehensivemodern geography book, and became a standardgeographical textbook. He was also a prolific writer onmathematical and theological subjects. He isremembered by collectors and historians ofcartography for his edition of Ptolemy's 'Geographia',and for miniature atlases that were reprinted for mostof the 17th century.The portrait was published in 'AllgemeineGeographische Ephemeriden' (Universal GeographicalEphemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuchet al. W. 631 - not in.Stock: 29733224. Charles Marie de la Condamine.Gebohr. zu Paris d.28 Jan 1701. Gestorbdaselbst.Westermayr. [Weimar: n.d., c.1805.]Stipple with large margins. Plate 140 x 90mm (5½ x3½"). £130Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701-74), Frenchexplorer, geographer, and mathematician who spent adecade in Ecuador measuring the length of a degree oflatitude at the equator. His account first described thecurare arrow poison and the correct use of quinine tofight malaria.The portrait was published in 'AllgemeineGeographische Ephemeriden' (Universal GeographicalEphemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuchet al.Stock: 29614225. J.B.N.D. d'Apres de Mannevillette. Geb:zu Havre de Grace d.12 Feb 1707. Gestorb d.1Mrt 1780.[Weimar: n.d., c.1808.]Stipple with large margins. Plate 140 x 90mm (5½ x3½"). £90Jean Baptiste Nicolas Denis (1707-1780), navigatorand one of the first French hydrographers. Hishydrographic atlas, 'Le Neptune Oriental', waspublished in Paris in 1745, with the support of theAcademie des Sciences. In 1772, helped by his friendAlexander Dalrymple, the Scottish geographer whobecame the first Hydrographer of the BritishAdmiralty, he published a much-enlarged new edition.The portrait was published in 'AllgemeineGeographische Ephemeriden' (Universal GeographicalEphemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuchet al.Stock: 29549226. Nicholas Defer. Köngl. Franz.Geograph. Gebohr 1646. Gestorb. 1720.C. Westermayr f. [Weimar: n.d., c.1808.]Stipple with large margins. Plate 140 x 90mm (5½ x3½"). £120Nicolas De Fer (1646-1725), a French cartographer andmap publisher, official geographer for Louis XIV ofFrance and Philip V of Spain (Louis's grandson). In1704 he published a large wall map of Spaincelebrating the Bourbon family's monarchs on boththrones, which had caused the War of the SpanishSuccession (1701-14).The portrait was published in 'AllgemeineGeographische Ephemeriden' (Universal GeographicalEphemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuchet al.Stock: 29604227. Claude De L'Isle Königl. Historiographu. Geograph. Geb. zu Vancouleur d.5 Nov.1644. gest. d. 2 May 1720.[Weimar: n.d., c.1808.]Stipple with large margins, plate 145 x 90mm (5¾ x3½"). £120Claude de L'Isle (1644 -1720), historian and patriarchof a cartographic dynasty that dominated French mappublishing in the 18th centuryThe portrait was published in 'AllgemeineGeographische Ephemeriden' (Universal GeographicalEphemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuchet al.Stock: 29543228. Guillaume De L'Isle Geb. zu Paris d. 28Febr. 1675 gest. ebendas d.25 Jan. 1726.Dessiné par Cless. d'aprés un Portrait, á l'huile.[Weimar: n.d., c.1808.]Stipple with large margins. Plate 145 x 90mm (5¾ x3½"). £120Guillaume de L'Isle (1675-1726), a cartographicprodigy who drew his first map aged nine. He waselected to the French Academie Royale des Sciences at27 and at 38 he became the first "Premier Geographedu Roi", 1718. He died early, aged only 51.The portrait, drawn by Jean Henri Cless, was publishedin 'Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden'(Universal Geographical Ephemerides (i.e.encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuch et al.Stock: 29544229. Jos. Nicolas De L'Isle Geb. zu Paris d.4April. 1688 gest. ebend. d.12 Sept. 1768.[Weimar: n.d., c.1808.]Stipple with large margins. Plate 145 x 90mm (5¾ x3½"). £180Joseph Nicolas de L'Isle (1688-1768), brother of theFrench Royal Cartographer Guillaume, who enteredthe service of the Russian tsars in 1726, heading thedepartment of geography of the Russian Academy ofSciences and working on the first Atlas of Russia, the'Atlas Russicus', published 1745. Unfortunately he isbetter known for propagating the myth of a 'Mer del’Ouest' ('Western Sea'), based on a hoax, a supposedvoyage of Admiral de Fonte who claimed to crossedNorth America via a North West Passage.The portrait was published in 'AllgemeineGeographische Ephemeriden' (Universal Geographical
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