Le Royaume de Siam avec les Royaumes qui luy sont tributaires et les Isles de Sumatra Andemaon etc…

Reference: s34315
Author Henri Abraham CHATELAIN
Year: 1719
Zone: East Indies
Printed: Amsterdam
Measures: 445 x 390 mm
€680.00

Reference: s34315
Author Henri Abraham CHATELAIN
Year: 1719
Zone: East Indies
Printed: Amsterdam
Measures: 445 x 390 mm
€680.00

Description

Interesting map of Southeast Asia, extending from Thailand, Cambodia, Viet Nam, and the Malay Peninsula and Gulf of Bengal in the North to Java and Sumatra in the South, centered on Malacca and Borneo.

Taken from Chatelain's 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, hand-coloured, in excellent condition. Higly decorative.

Henri Abraham CHATELAIN (1684 - 1743)

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

Henri Abraham CHATELAIN (1684 - 1743)

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