Mappa Geographica Regionem Mexicanam et Floridam [Geographical map of the Mexican region and Florida]
[with Adacent Lands and the Course of the Mississipi River and other Colonies]
North America, Gulf of Mexico, Central America, Mexico, Caribbean. Cartouche depicting naval battle, commerce in the New World.
Lotter, Tobias Conrad
[Augsburg]
1997 Jun: Heritage Map Museum: $1,550.00
1982 appraisal: $700.00
Although published five decades later, this map is remarkably similar to Guillaume Deslisle's 1703 "Carte de Mexique et de la Floride." This later rendition does not include California and features several insets not seen on Deslisle's original. Includes cartouche, bottom left, illustrating naval battle, and commercial activities in the New World--an illustration adapted from Homann's 1720 "Regni Mexicani Seu Novæ Hispaniæ, Ludovicianæ…" Homann's apprentice was Matthew Seutter, father-in-law of Tobias Ltter, the maker of this map. Sometime after Seutter's death, Lotter took over the family business, erased his father-in-law's name from old printing plates, and substituted his own.