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Stock# 11316
Description
Decorative and highly detailed postal map of the Northwestern part of Europe. Extends from the Mare Germanicum and the Baltic to the Adriatic and Switzerland., colored by Countries, provinces and circles. Marvelous decorative cartouche and explanaory note, delineating the various types of postal roads, stations, etc. Long fold split, repaired on the verso long ago, else a very nice example.
Tobias Conrad Lotter Biography
Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717-1777) is one of the best-known German mapmakers of the eighteenth century. He engraved many of the maps published by Matthaus Seutter, to whose daughter Lotter was married. He took over Seutter’s business in 1756. Lotter’s son, M. A. Lotter, succeeded his father in the business.
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