Carte du Plan de Venise l'Etat de sa Noblesse et ses Differens Degrez avec Quelques Autres Remarques Curieuses sur Cette Sup

Extremely detailed bird's-eye view of Venice with scores of ships and gondolas shown throughout. The text panels list monasteries, churches, palaces, bridges, and the names of leading families.

Taken from "Atlas Historique" , this sheet includes a small map of the northern hemisphere including all of Europe and Asia and most of Africa, above the horn. In 7 volumes, this Atlas is innovative for his time, because combines maps and engravings and informations of geography, history, ethnology, heraldry.

Copper engraving, in excellent condition.

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.