Carte du Gouvernement Civil et Militaire avec l'Etat des Officiers du Royaume d'Irlande

Irish civil and military government is featured with a pair of maps of Ireland, one in each corner, representing the kingdom as a whole and broken into its four Provinces. Next to these are the Arms of the Kingdom of Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain. In the bottom corners, two vignettes show the Irish Parliament and the Commons. Lists of individuals and territories, and notes on the kingdom surround the maps. 

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

Engraved text sheet with two maps of Ireland (140 x 105mm. each), coats of arms of Ireland and England and a views of Irish Parliament and the House of Commons.

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.ldry.

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