Copperplate, original colour, mm 490x585. Rare and interesting re-edition of the plate with the newly redrawn borders showing the partition of Poland in 1772, the first out of three in about 25 years that erased the existence of the Polish and Lithuanian states until 1918, when they again became independent nations. The map bears also new toponimes like the town of Cherson, which arose where years earlier was the site of Fort Alexander on the banks of the Dnieper. Lotter run then the business using mostly Seutter’s plates but adding some new ones also. Seutter, after having worked with Homann in Nuremberg, opened his own activity in Augsburg around 1720. His maps always have elaborate cartouches and are very decorative and printed on good paper. Lotter married Seutter’s daughter in 1740 and succeeded him in 1756.