Kurzgefasste Geographie, in sich haltend einen aneinander hangenden Entwurf aller Theile des bevvohnten Erdbodens
Subtitle: nebst compendieusen Landcharten, vvelche einen kleinen Sack- Atlas ausmachen
By: Herausgegeben von Tobias Lobeck, und bey ihm zu finden in Augspurg, vvohnhafft in der Jacober-Vorstadt, ohnvveit der Briel-Brücke, in dem Paradeise
Contributors: Lotter, Tobias Conrad, 1717-1777; Noyes, Robert Gale; Haydon, C.
Publisher: gedruckt bey Andreas Brinhauser, Stadt-Buchdrucker
Published: 1762
Place of publication: Augspurg [sic, i.e. Augsburg]
Language: ger
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Early works to 1800; German Atlases; Geography
Other titles: Kurzgefasste Geographie, in sich haltend einen aneinander hangenden Entwurf aller Theile des bewohnten Erdbodens.; Atlas geographicus portatilis, XXIX. mappis orbis habitabilis regna exhibens.
Notes: Questionable date of imprint suggested by Phillips.

Atlas section (p. [1-4], [29] leaves of plates) has special engraved title page reading: Atlas geographicus portatilis, XXIX. mappis orbis habitabilis regna exhibens. Caelo accurate expressit Tobias Conradus Lotterus, delineavit et excudit Tobias Lobeck, chalcograph: Augustan. Vendit in ejus aedib. in suburb. Jacobaeo in reg. Paradisi (??)

Atlas section also published separately in two states, one with 37 maps, the other with 49 maps, both printed in Augsburg, 1762?

Signatures: A-F⁶ (A1 verso blank) chi² (chi1, chi2 versos blank)

All plates are unnumbered; includes an engraved frontispiece bound to face first title page and 29 engraved, hand-colored maps which are numbered I-XXIX on p. [3], 2nd count which has caption title "Index mapparum geographicarum"

Map of America (no. VI) is described on p. 69-72, 1st count.

Phillips 630.

Tooley, R.V.  Dict. of mapmakers, 397.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full calf.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired as a gift from Robert Gale Noyes.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library: John 1A Royal Avenue Chelsea Kensington 8546 Hon. C. Haydon: ms. autograph on verso of rear flyleaf.
Table of contents: title: (List of maps from "Index mapparum geographicarum", p. [3], 2nd count): I. Planisphaerium globi terrestr.; title: II. Planisphaer: globi caelestis; title: III. Europa; title: IV. Asia; title: V. Africa; title: VI. America; title: VII. Regnum Hispaniae et Portugal; title: VIII. Galliae regnum; title: IX. Italia cum adjacentb[us] insulis; title: X. Theatrum belli Italicum; title: XI. Status ecclesiasticus magnusq[ue] Ducatus Florentinus; title: XII. Magnae Britanniae regna; title: XIII. Belgium; title: XIV. Germania inferior, exhibens theatrum belli Belgicum; title: XV. Helvetiorum respublica; title: XVI. Imper: Romano-Germanicum; title: XVII. Circ. Austriacus et Bavaricus; title: XVIII. Circul[us] Suevicus Franconicus Rhenanus superior et inferior; title: XIX. Circ: Burgundic[us] Westphalicus; title: XX. Circ: Saxonicus super et infer.; title: XXI. Bohemia Moravia Lusat: Silesia; title: XXII. Bohemiae regnum; title: XXIII. Poloniae regnum magnusque Ducatus Lithuaniae; title: XXIV. Borussiae regnum [i.e. Russia]; title: XXV. Dania; title: XXVI. Suecia; title: XXVII. Imperium Russicum omnis que Tartaria; title: XXVIII. Regnum Hungariae; title: XXIX. Tabla Danubii, Graeciae et archipelagi.