An original antique map from 1760.
Title Translates to "A News Map of the Black Sea and the Strait of Constantinople".
It was published in Augsburg by Tobias Conrad Lotter.
The hand colouring appears to be original to the period.
Centre fold as published.
Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717 - 1777) was a German engraver and map publisher. Lotter was the son of a baker and city guardsman He married the daughter of the prominent map publisher Matthäus Seutter, and began working at his father-in-law's map business about 1740.
By the 1740s he had developed his printmaking skills to be able to produce the Atlas Minor, Praecipua orbis terrarum imperia, regna et provincias, Germania potissimum tabelli. Upon Seutter's death, in 1757, the firm's stock was taken over by his son, Albrecht Karl Seutter, who himself died in 1762, just a few years later. The remaining Seutter map plates were subsequently divided between Lotter and the publisher Johan Mitchell Probst. With the support of his sons, Matthäus, Georg and Gustav, Tobias Conrad Lotter succeeded in building on the economic success and professional reputation of his father-in-law. In time, Lotter became one of the most prominent mid-18th century map publishers working in the German school. After Lotter's death in 1777, the business was taken over by his two eldest sons, who, lacking their father's business acumen, presided over the firm's slow decline. It was passed on to a subsequent generation of Lotters, who pushed it into further decline until it faded out in the early-19th century.
