Mapmaker Biographies
From Aa to Zatta, please find following a selection of mapmaker biographies. We have taken the term “mapmaker” in the broadest sense, and include cartographers, surveyors, engravers and publishers in our selection. Please feel free to suggest some more. Also, we collect mapmaker portraits, so please do let us know if you come across any we don’t have.
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- Benjamin BAKER
- Elizabeth BAKEWELL
- Jacopo de BARBARI
- Willem BARENTSZ
- Harry BECK
- Martin BEHAIM
- Jacques-Nicolas BELLIN
- William BERRY
- Willem BLAEU
- Richard BLOME
- Rigobert BONNE
- Charles BOOTH
- Benedetto di BORDONE
- Louis-Antoine BOUGAINVILLE
- Emanuel BOWEN
- John BOWLES
- Georg BRAUN
- Isaac BROUCKNER
- Theodor de BRY
- William Andrewes BRYANT
- Samuel BUCK
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- Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D’ANVILLE
- Alexander DALRYMPLE
- Justus DANCKERTS
- William DANIELL
- William DARTON
- Guillaume DELISLE
- Louis-Charles DESNOS
- Joseph Foss DESSIOU
- Robert DIGHTON
- C. W. & Sons DIXEY
- Nicolas DOBREE
- Hendrik DONCKER
- Benjamin DONN
- Amos DOOLITTLE
- Frank DORN
- Robert DUDLEY
- Albrecht DÜRER
- L’Abbé Antoine-François PRÉVOST d’EXILES
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- Giovanni Giacomo de’ ROSSI
- Georges-Louis LE ROUGE
- Johannes de RAM
- Giovanni Battista RAMUSIO
- Abbe Guillaume-Thomas-François RAYNAL
- Kornelius Kristianovich August von REISSIG
- Adriaan RELAND
- Louis RENARD
- Jacobus ROBIJN
- John ROCQUE
- ROGGEVEEN
- Bernard ROMANS
- Frederick William ROSE
- Joseph ROUX
- Sebastian de RUESTA
- Fausto RUGHESI
- Girolamo RUSCELLI
Oman
Indonesia – The Java Sea
Unrecorded second state of De Jode’s map of Asia
Rare volvelle from Apian’s Astronomicum Caesareum
A perpetual calendar fit for a King…
“Devil’s Acre”
The end of the Sikh Empire
A unique late Medieval/early Renaissance volvelle astronomical calendar
Four perspective views
The Copernican solar system
The first chart of the Chinese Coast on Mercator’s Projection
Flourishing London
Southeast Asia at the end of the nineteenth century
Extremely rare first edition of Hunter’s map of Arabia, compiled from secret sources
The New Territories
The largest map ever printed in Georgian Britain
Plan of London showing troop dispositions
Early printed chart of the Malacca and Singapore Straits
Rare planisphere
View of Kyoto 

