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Last Name Girava

Given Name Gerónimo

alt. Names G. G. ; Geronimo / Ieronymo / Jerónimo / Hieronimo‏ / Hieronymus Girau

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Year born 1500 c. ?in Tarragones?

Year died 1556

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Country of Activity Spain

Worked for G. G.: Dos libros de cosmographia. Milano 1556; La cosmographia de Pedro Apiano [= Peter Apian / Pedrus Apianus], 1575; Cosmographia, siue Descriptio vniuersi orbis, 1584; La cosmographia y geographia del S. Hieronimo Girava, Tarragones, Venice 1570

Patronage cosmographer of King Carlos V of Spain ;

Collaborators publisher G. A. Castiglione & C. Carron in Milano ;

Techniques cartographical and maritime portolan maps

Sample(s) http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/girava-hieronymus-dos-4890328-details.aspx?intObjectID=4890328 ; http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/19631/lot/8/

Archival sources see http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/viaf-198876716 for a listing of his publ. maps & atlases

Published sources John Blake: Vermessung der Meere (2007: 28-29) ;

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