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Description
Scarce mininiature map of America from the Atlas Geographicus Portatalis. The map follows the cartography of the Homann maps of America from 1720 and after, including the Pais de Moozemlek west of Lake Superior. The Great Lakes are taking shape and there are a number of place names in the southwest. The southwestern Pacific is loaded with islands, many of which were conjectural.
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.