FRANCE 1720 HENRI ABRAHAM CHATELAIN ANTIQUE ORIGINAL COPPER ENGRAVED MAP

Carte Geographique De France, Avec Des Remarques Curieuses Sur L'Ancienne Et La Nouvelle Geographie.

Description: Striking and highly detailed fine unusual 1720 Henri Abraham Chatelain's copper engraved folio sheet map of France, depicting modern and historical features. Shows major churches, castles, historical events and geographical details. Embellished with several sailing vessels, compass rose, etc. Detailed tables on either side of the map.

Date: 1720 ( undated ) 

Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 60,4 x 47,9

Conditions: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains. Map contemporary handcolored. Wide margin to the top. G00d lower margin. Wide right lateral margin. Good right lateral margin. Wide left lateral margin. Small holes affecting the map reaired on the verso. 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.