Description de l'Isthme de Darien, des Proprietez du Pais et de la Ville de Panama...
| Reference: | S34923 |
| Author | Henri Abraham CHATELAIN |
| Year: | 1708 ca. |
| Zone: | Panama |
| Printed: | Amsterdam |
| Measures: | 440 x 370 mm |
€225.00
| Reference: | S34923 |
| Author | Henri Abraham CHATELAIN |
| Year: | 1708 ca. |
| Zone: | Panama |
| Printed: | Amsterdam |
| Measures: | 440 x 370 mm |
€225.00
Description
Very handsome double-page sheet has three small maps covering the Isthmus of Darien and the Gulf of Panama. The maps are flanked on two sides by explanatory text in French. This example is illustrated with seven panels of finely engraved examples of the region's flora and fauna, including fish, birds and plant life. The larger of the three maps, Carte de L'Isthme de Darien et du Golfe de Panama shows the route of the author and includes a compass rose.
Taken from "Atlas Historique".
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.
Copper engraving, in excellent condition.
Henri Abraham CHATELAIN (1684 - 1743)
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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. The Atlas Historique published by Chatelain was part of a major work of its time, an encyclopaedia in seven volumes including geography as one of its main subjectes. The text was by Nicholas Gueudeville and the maps by Chatelain. The Atlas included one of the finest maps of America (4 sheets) surrounded by vignettes and decorative insets.
1705-20 Atlas Historique:Amsterdam (maps by Chatelain based on G.Delisle)
Further issues to 1739
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Henri Abraham CHATELAIN (1684 - 1743)
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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. The Atlas Historique published by Chatelain was part of a major work of its time, an encyclopaedia in seven volumes including geography as one of its main subjectes. The text was by Nicholas Gueudeville and the maps by Chatelain. The Atlas included one of the finest maps of America (4 sheets) surrounded by vignettes and decorative insets.
1705-20 Atlas Historique:Amsterdam (maps by Chatelain based on G.Delisle)
Further issues to 1739
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