Vue et Description De Quelques-Uns Principaux Forts des dans Hollandois dans les Indes

Interesting sheet with seven detailed views illustrating the most important Dutch trading outposts and fortified colonial possessions in the East Indies, including 4 harbor views Batavia (Jakarta), Amboina, Ternate, and Solor, and 3 fort plans, with descriptive French text. Features the principal forts of the Dutch in the Indies in the early eighteenth century. Seven precisely detailed vignettes portray the important endeavors and accomplishments following the founding of the Dutch East Indies Company in the early seventeenth century. European frigates and local seagoing vessels embellish the seas. 

Taken from Atlas Historique, published in Amsterdam between 1705 and 1720.

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, with fine later hand colour,  in excellent condition.