Matthias Quad

Matthias Quad (1557–1613) was an engraver and cartographer from Cologne. He was the first European mapmaker to use dotted lines to indicate international borders.^[1]

Aphrica, 1600, Johann Bussemacher after Matthias Quad

Life

Matthias Quad was born and learnt engraving in the Netherlands. An engraver in wood and stone,^[2] Quad collaborated with the Cologne publisher Johann Bussemacher to publish a quarto atlas of Europe in 1592.^[3] This was expanded into a Geographisches Handtbuch (1599), with more text than maps, and then into a proper atlas, Fasciculus Geographicus (1608).^[2]

Works

• Europea totius orbis terrarum praestantissimae..., 1592 (1596 edition on Internet Archive)
• Globi terrestris compendium, 1598 (On Google Books)
• Enchiridion Cosmographicum, 1599 (On Google Books)
• Geographisches Handtbuch, 1599/1600 (On Google Books)
• Deliciae Germaniae sive totius Germaniae itinerarium, 1600 (On Google Books)
• Itinerarium Universae Germaniae, 1602 (On Google Books)
• Deliciae Hispaniae et index viatorius indicans itinera, 1604 (On Google Books)
• Fasciculus Geographicus, 1608 (On Google Books)