Carte de la parte Septentrionale du royaume de avec une table des Provinces et Villes principales

The map covers all of northern Sweden and part of northern Finland. It includes most of northern Norway and the northern section of the Russian border. Great attention has been paid to the geographical features of the area as well as the many waterways and mountains scattered across the terrain.

The extensive key table identifies the various duchies and provides a list of the major lakes and rivers. By combining a wealth of historical and geographical information with delicate engraving and an uncomplicated composition, this elegant map is a superb example from the golden age of French mapmaking.

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.

Copperplate, printed on two sheets, fine later hand colour, good condition.