Succession des Empereurs du Japon avec une description du Meurtre de L'Empereur Cubo…
| Reference: | MS1286 |
| Author | Henri Abraham CHATELAIN |
| Year: | 1708 ca. |
| Zone: | Japan |
| Printed: | Amsterdam |
| Measures: | 443 x 382 mm |
€325.00
| Reference: | MS1286 |
| Author | Henri Abraham CHATELAIN |
| Year: | 1708 ca. |
| Zone: | Japan |
| Printed: | Amsterdam |
| Measures: | 443 x 382 mm |
€325.00
Description
A fine folio sheet of engravings depicting the death of the Emperor Cubo and the arrival of one of the early Dutch embassies to Japan (at Mia in 1644) and a small map of the main island Honshu. 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.
“For the second map of Japan in the Atlas Historique, Châtelain has inserted a more traditional representation, probably borrowed from Pieter van der Aa who, in turn, drew on Sanson's model of 1652. The miniature map is sandwiched at bottom centre of the sheet between two blocks of text, one dealing with the death of the emperor of Japan and the other with the Dutch 'Embassy' of 1644." (Hubbard "Japoniae Insulae – The Mapping of Japan", p. 295).
Copper engraving with fine later hand colour, in excellent condition.
Bibliografia:
Hubbard "Japoniae Insulae – The Mapping of Japan", pp. 295-296, n. 74; Walter "Japan a cartographic vision", p. 219, n. 72.
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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