Gerald de Jode
Gerald de Jode (1509 - 1591) is a Cartographe, engraver and active editor with Antwerp with the XVIe century.
Life
It was born with Nimègue and died in Antwerp. In 1547 it entered the Guilde of Saint-Luc and started to work as editor and merchant of prints. It published works of other cartographers, in particular the chart of the world of Giacomo Gastaldi in 1555, the chart of the Duché of the Brabant of Jacob van Deventer in 1558, the chart of the world in eight layers of Abraham Ortelius in 1564, and of the charts of Bartholomeus Musinus and Fernando Alvares Seco.Its major work, the Speculum Orbis Terrarum (Mirror of the grounds of the sphere) appeared in 1578, eight years after the publication of the Theatrum of Ortelius of which he did not know popularity.
The specimens of this work are very rare today, and the copy with more large scales is more easily found that his/her Cornelius son published some. With died of this one, the plates were repurchased by J.B. Vrients, which also had the plates of Ortelius but the Speculum was never republished as tel.
A specimen of the Speculum Orbis Terrarum is with the Université of Yale (Beinecke Library of rare books and manuscripts).
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