INSULA CRETA NUNC CANDIA
£595
Full Title Title: Insula Creta nunc Candia in sua IV Territoria distincta, cum aliqoud adjacentibus Ægei maris Insulis imprimis Nova Santorini insula
A scarce map of Crete by Lotter (from Seutter's plate)., showing the island of Crete with surrounding islands in the upper area and a view of Heraklion in the lower part.
The map area is supplemented by a decorative cartouche with maritime representations and a text about the island Santorini, which was newly created during a volcanic eruption in 1707.
Lotter married Seutter's daughter in 1740 and succeeded him in 1756.
Marging extended at top for framing
Good strong original colour
Very good condition
code : M5339
Cartographer : LOTTER Family
Date : 1760 Augsberg
Size : 50*58 cms
availability : Available
Price : £595
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.
