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Updated To Show Hawaii and the Tracks of Captain James Cook's Third Voyage
Rare 1782 edition of this unusually large world map on an ovoid projection, first published in Augsburg in 1778.
The attractive and somewhat unusual ovoid projection is based on J.B.B. D'Anville's wall map of 1761. The title of the map translates as follows:
World Map or General Map of the Universe on a New Projection of an Oval Sphere to Better Understand the Distances Between Europe and America, with Lieutenant Cook’s Voyage Around the World and the New Discoveries...
First published in 1778, the map originally tracked only the first of Cook's Voyages. This 1782 edition is updated to show the third voyage, including the discovery of Hawaii (curiously shown in the Eastern Hemisphere), one of the earliest maps to show Cook's discovery.
The map was published by Matthäus Albrecht Lotter (1741-1810), the heir to one of Europe's most prolific and long-lasting cartographic dynasties. He was the son of important Augsburg mapmaker Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717-77) who was, in turn the son-in-law and heir of Matthäus Seutter (1678-1757), who had trained under the eminent cartographer Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724).
The map was engraved by eminent Matthäus Albrecht's brother, Georg Frederick Lotter.
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