Description
Mapmonde ou Description Generale du Globe Terrestre.
Description: Striking and highly detailed fine unusual 1720 Henri Abraham Chatelain's copper engraved folio sheet world map in two Hemispheres, showing California as an island, the tracks of several explorers around the world and Celestial images of the sun Kircher and the moon by Cassini. The map includes French explanatory tables along the lower side.
Date: 1720 ( undated )
Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 51,7 x 42,9
Conditions: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains. Map contemporary handcolored. Wide margins. Sheet folded. Tear ath the lower side repaired 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.
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