Nicolas (Nicholas) de Fer ( fr. Nicolas de Fer ; 1646 , Paris - October 25, 1720 , Paris ) - French engraver , cartographer , publisher , geographer .
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Biography
Born in the family of the Paris typographer and publisher Antoine de Feer. At the age of twelve he began to study the art of engraving.
After the death of his father in 1673, he inherited a publishing house. Being in the service of the French crown, he published geographical atlases , plans of cities and towns, maps associated with the French kingdom, its colonies and zones of influence. In 1693 he published, in particular, the views of Kamyanets-Podilsky in the series "Les Forces de l'Europe".
In 1694, Nicolas de Fer created the first pocket-sized map of Paris, designed specifically for those who intended to move around the city on foot [6]. The publication was both a map and a guidebook.
He created the engraved plan of St. Petersburg , published in 1717 in Paris by order of Tsar Peter I, who was there at that time.
He was one of the most active and influential French publishers at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries. The most important element of the propaganda of the authority of the Bourbons .
In total, he created more than 600 geographical maps, including plans and descriptions of cities in France, its provinces, and also sea routes.
His main work, Atlas Curieux (Atlas Curie), was published in Paris in 1700.
Featured Works
- Les Côtes de France (1690)
- La France Triomphante Sousse le Règne de Louis le Grand (1693)
- Les Forces de l'Europe (1690–1695)
- Atlas royal
- Petit et Nouveau Atlas (1697)
- Les Beautés de la France (1708)
- Atlas Curieux oùle Monde représenté dans les cartes générales et particulières du Ciel et de la Terre
- Atlas ou recueil de cartes géographiques dressées sur les nouvelles observations
- Kingdom of Poland, consisting of large and small Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Prussia and Courland, divided into provinces and governorship. Paris (1716).
Notes
- 2 1 2 3 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 124536794 // General Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ http://www.abebooks.com/LAtlas-curieux-monde-represente-cartes-generales/1233844901/bd
- ↑ British Museum person-institution thesaurus
- ↑ http://catalogue.bnf.fr/servlet/RechercheEquation?TexteCollection=HGARSTUVWXYZ1DIECBMJNQLOKP&TexteTypeDoc=DESNFPIBTMCJOV&Equation=IDPP% 3Dcb15287405c& FormatAhtif
- B BNF ID : Open Data Platform - 2011.
- ↑ How Paris became Paris. The history of creating the most attractive city in the world