FRANCE LE ROYAUME DE FRANCE ET LE CONQUETES DE LOUIS LE GRAND

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RARE and very decorative map of France surrounded with 20 insets of town plans : [1.] Philisbourg: [2.] Mons: [3.] Longwy: [4.] Hombourg: [5.] Saar-Louis: [6.] Perpignan: [7.] Barcelone: [8.] Alger: [9.] Le fort de la Kenoque: [10.] Fort St. Iacques: [11.] Cadis: [12.] Brisac: [13.] Nancy: [14.] Haguenau: [15.] Le fort Louis du Rhein: [16.] Huningue: [17.] Strasbourg: [18.] Roses: [19.] Palamos et Girone. In lower cartouche three scales with the address of the publisher, Jeremias Wolff (1663-1724) who was a very successful publisher, engraver, printseller and clock-maker active in Augsburg.Engraved by J.Christofle Steinberger. Full original colour as issued (Plans uncoloured).Very good condition.SOLD

code : M1750

Cartographer : LOTTER Family

Date : 9000./ .1760c Augsberg

Size : 47*57cms

availability : Sold

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The Lotter family were and engraves and publishers based in Augsburg with a prolific output of maps in the eighteenth century.

Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717-1777) worked with Georg Matthaus Seutter (his father-in-law - he married Georg's daughter in 1740) and Tobias Lobeck. In 1756 he succeeded his father-in-law jointly with Albrecht Seutter's son and Georg Balthasar Probst, also re lated by marriage. In 1758 Lotter inherited half the copperplates of the Seutter firm and was able to set up his own, independent publishing house that same year. Some of his best known atlas works are the "Atlas Minor" (c.1744), the "Atlas Der Ganzen Welt" (1748) and the "Atlas Novus" (c.1770), as well as numerous, important, single map - the "REcens Edita Totius Novi Belgica" of c.1760 being just one of note.

The Seutter/Lotter collaboration was recognised as one of the great German publishing endeavours of the eighteenth century.

Tobias Conrad was succeeded by his sons Matthaus Albrecht Lotter and Georg Friedrich Lotter, and other family members were also involved.