PETER SCHENK, Insulae Iavae cum parte insularum Borneo Sumatrae et circumjacentium insularum novissima delineatio, ca 1700
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Petrus Schenck (Elberfeld, Wuppertal 26 December 1660 - Leipzig, Saxony 1711) was a German engraver and mapmaker. Schenck was one of the most important figures in Saxon cartography in the first half of the 18th century.The mapmaker entered the service of the Amsterdam engraver and map publisher Gerard Valck. Schenck lived in the Jordaan on the Lauriergracht in amsterdam. The couple had six children, all of whom were baptized in the Westerkerk.
Around 1700, he settled in Leipzig as a globetrotter, mapmaker and art dealer.
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