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Description
Striking and highly detailed map of China, colored by provinces.
Extends to Korea (shown as a peninsula) and most of Japan. Formosa is shown ais Pakan olim Formosa Ins. Ornate decorative cartouche and two additional decorative cartouches.
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.