Lotter, Tobias Conrad | The world accurately drawn in general outline

Lotter, Tobias Conrad

Mappa Totius Mundi Adornata...Augsburg: [circa 1750]

Copperplate engraved map (to sight: 655 x 470 mm). Handcoloring, with insets of the poles; a few stray spots. Matted and framed; not examined out of frame.

Vast portions of the globe had been charted with general accuracy by the mid-eighteenth century. In the present map, California is attached to the mainland, though Hawaii and a significant parts of Australia are not depicted.