Carte Nouvelle des Terres de Cucan de Canara de Malabar de Madura et de Coromandel..

Reference: MS1240
Author Henri Abraham CHATELAIN
Year: 1708 ca.
Zone: India
Printed: Amsterdam
Measures: 440 x 380 mm
€280.00

Reference: MS1240
Author Henri Abraham CHATELAIN
Year: 1708 ca.
Zone: India
Printed: Amsterdam
Measures: 440 x 380 mm
€280.00

Description

Map taken from "Atlas Historique" published in Amsterdam between 1705 and 1720.


The map includes three text boxes giving particulars of the region and its divisions. Interior details include the Western Ghats and wild animals among the forests and hills.

After a map by H.Reland (1676-1718) a Utrecht professor who specialized in Asian languages, geography and religions.

Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 - 1743) was a Huguenot pastor of Parisian origins. He is best known as a Dutch cartographer and more specifically for his cartographic contribution in the seminal seven volume Atlas Historique, published in Amsterdam between 1705 and 1720. Innovative for its time, the Atlas Historique combined fine engraving and artwork with scholarly studies of geography, history, ethnology, heraldry, and cosmography. Some scholarship suggests that the Atlas Historique was not exclusively compiled by Henri Chatelain, as is commonly believed, but rather was a family enterprise involving Henri, his father Zacharie and his brother, also Zacharie.


Copper engraving, with fine later hand colour, in excellent condition.

Henri Abraham CHATELAIN (1684 - 1743)

Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 - 1743) was a Huguenot pastor of Parisian origins. He is best known as a Dutch cartographer and more specifically for his cartographic contribution in the seminal seven volume Atlas Historique, published in Amsterdam between 1705 and 1720. Innovative for its time, the Atlas Historique combined fine engraving and artwork with scholarly studies of geography, history, ethnology, heraldry, and cosmography. Some scholarship suggests that the Atlas Historique was not exclusively compiled by Henri Chatelain, as is commonly believed, but rather was a family enterprise involving Henri, his father Zacharie and his brother, also Zacharie. The Atlas Historique published by Chatelain was part of a major work of its time, an encyclopaedia in seven volumes including geography as one of its main subjectes. The text was by Nicholas Gueudeville and the maps by Chatelain. The Atlas included one of the finest maps of America (4 sheets) surrounded by vignettes and decorative insets. 1705-20 Atlas Historique:Amsterdam (maps by Chatelain based on G.Delisle) Further issues to 1739

Henri Abraham CHATELAIN (1684 - 1743)

Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 - 1743) was a Huguenot pastor of Parisian origins. He is best known as a Dutch cartographer and more specifically for his cartographic contribution in the seminal seven volume Atlas Historique, published in Amsterdam between 1705 and 1720. Innovative for its time, the Atlas Historique combined fine engraving and artwork with scholarly studies of geography, history, ethnology, heraldry, and cosmography. Some scholarship suggests that the Atlas Historique was not exclusively compiled by Henri Chatelain, as is commonly believed, but rather was a family enterprise involving Henri, his father Zacharie and his brother, also Zacharie. The Atlas Historique published by Chatelain was part of a major work of its time, an encyclopaedia in seven volumes including geography as one of its main subjectes. The text was by Nicholas Gueudeville and the maps by Chatelain. The Atlas included one of the finest maps of America (4 sheets) surrounded by vignettes and decorative insets. 1705-20 Atlas Historique:Amsterdam (maps by Chatelain based on G.Delisle) Further issues to 1739