Carte du Royaume de Boheme. La Chronologie de ses Rois. Les Etats de Silesie, Moravie, et Lusace

Map centered on today Czech Republic, including part of Poland with a key table to the towns on both sides.

This is a very attractive and informative map of the region of the present-day Czech Republic, Slovakia and southeastern Poland. At the sides are lists of towns and dukedoms, and a chronological history of the dukes and kings of Bohemia. It is a handsome chart that is decorated with four coats of arms and a compass rose.

Etching with fine hand colour, in good 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.