RUSSIA SPATIOSISSIMUM IMPERIUM RUSSIAE MAGNAE
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RARE.Covers the whole of Russia from St Petersberg,Moscow to a rather fanciful Kamchatka Peninsula.This map was drawn by the order of Anna Ioannovna, the Russian empress. This is the first cartographical depiction of Kamchatka. The Caspian Sea is depicted accurately as well, its shape is more or less exact here. The map was copied for some decades notably by Lotter.Full original colour.Higly decorative cartouche. Very good condition.SOLDcode : M1748
Cartographer : SEUTTER Family
Date : 90/ 1732 Augsberg
Size : 50*57cms
availability : Sold
Price : Sold
Besides the Homanns, the other great German publishers of the eighteenth century were the Seutter family. Mattheus Seutter the elder (1678-1757) was apprenticed to Johann Baptist Homann in 1697 in Nuremberg, but left to settle in Augsburg where he established his own business publishing atlases, including the "Atlas Geographicus" (1725) and "Grosser Atlas" (circa 1735). Seutter's style was heavily influenced by Homann, with distinctive similarities appearing in his maps. He was joined in the business by his son, Albrecht (1722-1762), who continued the firm in partnership with Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717-1777) on his father's death.
