Nouvelle Carte de l’Empire Divise Selon ses Differents Etats: avec des Tables pour Trouver Facilement les Etats de Chaque

This impressive map is a wonderful example of Chatelain’s elegant charts. Included in the 1720 edition of Atlas Historique, published by Chatelain in Amsterdam, this large chart is the twenty-third plate in volume two.

This striking map of Germany covers the whole of the country and identifies the principal regions ruled by every German Prince. The map is flanked by two tables connecting the various princes with specific locations across the map. This fine map is a wonderful example from Chatelain’s important text.

By combining a wealth of information and geographical observation, with delicate engraving and an uncomplicated composition.

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.