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![A New and Correct Map of North America with the West India Islands, Divided According to the Last Treaty of Peace ... 20th of Jan. 1783 ... Particularly Distinguished the Thirteen Provinces which Compose the United States . . . [With annotations describing Cumberland, Tennessee, Kentucky etc.] By Tobias Conrad Lotter](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/41651.jpg)
1784 Tobias Conrad Lotter
$ 4,800.00
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Stock# 21161
Description
Fine example of Lotter's 4 sheet map of the newly formed United States, based upon a map original published by by Bowen & Gibson and later by Jefferys, and Sayer & Bennett.
The map is a completely different engraving and includes a striking cartouche showing trade in America. The geography and insets are largely unchanged from the contemporary Sayer & Bennett map.
Condition Description
Minor printer's crease
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.
![Vereinigte Staaten Von Nordamerika [United States of America]](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/79951.jpg)
