GERMAN EMPIRE GERMANY CZECH REPUBLIC POLAND 1720 CHATELAIN ANTIQUE ORIGINAL MAP

Nouvelle carte de l'Empire divisé selon ses differents États avec des Tables pour trouver facilement les états de chaque Prince par les lettres alphabetiques.

Description: Striking and highly detailed fine unusual 1720 Henri Abraham Chatelain's copper engraved folio sheet map of the course of the German Empire, with its divisions in Cercles.

The map covers Germany, Czech Republis, part of Poland, Netherlands, Luxembourg, northern Switzerland, a bit of France and part of Austria. The map is filled with topographic detail on cities, towns, rivers, lakes and islands.

 
The map includes French explanatory tables.

Date: 1720 ( undated ) 

Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 65,2 x 50,2

Conditions: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains. Map contemporary handcolored. Wide margins. Sheet folded. Small tears. Map folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images.

Mapmaker: Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 - 1743) was a Huguenot pastor of Parisian origins. He lived consecutively in Paris, St. Martins, London (c. 1710), The Hague (c. 1721) and Amsterdam (c. 1728). 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.