Item #3211625 Carte de l'Océan Pacifique…. Tobias Conrad LOTTER.

Carte de l'Océan Pacifique…

Augsburg: Tobie Conrad Lotter, 1781.

Engraved map, 465 x 490 mm., with original handcoloured outlines; mounted.

Pivotal early map of Hawaii and the North Pacific

The first separately-issued map to depict Hawaii: the panels of text beneath the map, in both French and German, mention the discovery of Hawaii and Cook's death. The text describes the map's origin, claiming that it is based on a map published in the Gentleman's Magazine of 1780. According to Forbes, the magazine 'published during 1780 important notices on the progress of Cook's Third Voyage, his death, and inter alia the existence of Hawaii'. The map from the Gentleman's Magazine was made by Thomas Kitchin the elder, and was published initially in July 1780 without marking the tracks of the voyage, and again in December of that year with the addition of Cook's route.

The first separately-issued map to depict Hawaii: the panels of text beneath the map, in both French and German, mention the discovery of Hawaii and Cook's death. The text describes the map's origin, claiming that it is based on a map published in the Gentleman's Magazine of 1780. According to Forbes, the magazine 'published during 1780 important notices on the progress of Cook's Third Voyage, his death, and inter alia the existence of Hawaii'. The map from the Gentleman's Magazine was made by Thomas Kitchin the elder, and was published initially in July 1780 without marking the tracks of the voyage, and again in December of that year with the addition of Cook's route.

Tobias Lotter (1717-1777) was an engraver and publisher who married into the long-established and respected map-making firm of Seutter of Vienna and Augsburg. His handsome map, with text in both French and German, shows the tracks of Cook and Clerke from Hawaii to the Northwest Coast of America and on to Kamchatka. It also shows Russian and Spanish routes in the Pacific.

Lotter's map, and Kitchin's on which his was based, predated the first "official" map to show Hawaii which appeared with the official account of Cook's final voyage published in 1784. A chart showing Cook's discoveries in Hawaii did appear in John Rickman's surreptitious account of 1781, but it was the appearance of the official account of the voyage which resulted in a flood of maps delineating Cook's tracks and drawing particular attention to Hawaii where the navigator met his end.

not in Beddie.

Condition Report: In fine condition.

Price (AUD): $5,500.00

US$3,612.49   Other currencies

Ref: #3211625

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