Year
Event Keyword

1527
Ortelius, Abraham, d. 1598, published of Antwerp (original name: ORTELIUS

Abraham Wortels), cartographer and publisher of maps. Theatrum

Orbis Terrarum 1570

1528
Feierabend, Sigmund, d.1590, woodcutter and type cutter, FEIERABEND

Heidelberg, Germany

1529
Enchiridion der kleine Catechismus fur die gemeine Pfarher und ENCHIRIDION

Prediger, Gemehrt und gebessert durch Mart.Luther, Wittenberg

1529
Tory, Geoffroy Tory's Champleury published in Paris TORY

1530
Tory, Geoffroy, becomes the first royal printer in Paris TORY

1530
Miguel de Cervantes (1513-1616), author of DON QUIXOTE CERVANTES

1531
Emblem Books, the first anthology of emblems was printed in EMBLEMATUM LIBER

Augsburg by Heinrich Steiner: Emblematum Liber

1531
Krause, Jakob, d.1586. German bookbinder, active in Paris , KRAUSE

Augsburg and Dresden

1534
Frankfurt Book fair FRANKFURT

1534
Luther. First complete Luther bible translation, illustrated, was LUTHER

printed by Hans Lufft at Wittenberg

1534
Luther. First complete Luther bible translation, illustrated, was BIBLE

printed by Hans Lufft at Wittenberg

1536
Lotter, Melchior, d.1536, printer of Leipzig, friend of Luther LOTTER

1537
France I ordered that all French presses should deliver a copy of BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONAL

every book they printed to the royal library

1538
Holbein's Dance of Death published in Lyons HOLBEIN

1538
Dance of Death with Holbein's illustrations printed in Lyon by Gaspar HOLBEIN

and Melchior Treschel

1539
Amman. birth Jost Amman AMMAN

1540
Egerton, Sir Thomas, d.1617, founder of one of the oldest private EGERTON

libraries in Britain; in 1917 a large portion of the archives was

bought by Henry E. Huntington

1540
Paper, first paper mill in Stockholm PAPER

1540
Keere, Hendrik van den, d.1580. Punch cutter, binder and printer in KEERE

Ghent, Belgium

1543
Vesalius, Andreas, 'De Humani Corporis Fabrica', anatomical study, VESALIUS

published by Johannes Oporinus

1543
Moretus, Joannes (Jan Moerentorf), d.1610. Plantin's son in law and MORETUS

successor.

1545
Bodley, Sir Thomas, d.1613. Rebuilder of Oxford University Library OXFORD UN. LIBRARY

bearing his name.

1545
Granjon, Robert, d.1589, Paris/Lyon, punch cutter and type designer GRANJON

1545
Bodley, Sir Thomas, d.1613. Rebuilder of Oxford University Library BODLEY

bearing his name.

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