Saxoniae Superioris Circulus ob oculos sistens Ducate Electorat. Sacon March Misiniae Landgr. Thuring. Princ. Anhalt...

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Copper engraving, hand colored in outline and wash when published. Engraved by Tobias Conrad Lotter. A nice and detailed map of Saxonia with Leipzig, Meissen and Dresden in the centre of the map. The fine engraved map with many place names, rivers, mountains and enraved political borders. Equipped with two decorative cartouches. The map first appeared in Matthäus Seutter's 'Atlas Minor'. Tobias Conrad Lotter was married in 1740 to the oldest daughter of M. Seutter, after Seutter's death in 1757 the printing house passed over to him. From 1757/58 he changed all Seutter imprints to his name T.C. Lotter.