Summary
Tobias Conrad Lotter: Exactissima Ducatus Carniolae Vinidorum Marchia et Histria - Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia. (Carte Geographique du Theater de la Guerre en General representant le Royaume de Hongrie, la Principalite de Transylvania, et les Royaumes de Crocie, de Dalmacie, de Esclavonie, de Bosnie, de Servie...)
Hand-colored copperplate
The map shows the area of the war against the Ottoman Empire from Lika to the Black Sea and the course of the Danube from Vienna to the Black Sea.
Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717-1777), copper engraver, cartographer and publisher from Augsburg. He married the daughter of M. Seutter and succeeded him in 1757. His most famous works are Terra Sancta from 1759, Sardinia / Corsica from 1764, Die Welt from 1775, and then again in editions in 1778 and 1782, Atlas Minor, which was published from 1740 to 1744 with Seutter's help, and Atlas Geogr. Portable. He published maps together with Tobias Lobeck, engraver and publisher in Atlas Geographicus, in 1762. Already in 1770, his work Carte Geographique representant la Mer Mediterranée ou la seconde Partie Du Théatre De La Guerre Entre Les Russes Et Les Turcs was published in Augsburg: C'est à dire Les Roiaumes, Les Etâts, Les Provinces Et Les Diverses Isles Situées Dans La Dite Mer, avec La Mer Noire ou Pont Euxine et une Partie de la Province Georgie en Asia. LIT: Bonacker, 1966, 147; Tooley, 1979, 401.
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