Coutumes Moeurs & Habillemens des Peuples qui habiten aux environs du Cap de Bonne Esperance..
| Reference: | s30315 |
| Author | Henri Abraham CHATELAIN |
| Year: | 1708 ca. |
| Zone: | Southern Africa |
| Printed: | Amsterdam |
| Measures: | 440 x 390 mm |
€275.00
| Reference: | s30315 |
| Author | Henri Abraham CHATELAIN |
| Year: | 1708 ca. |
| Zone: | Southern Africa |
| Printed: | Amsterdam |
| Measures: | 440 x 390 mm |
€275.00
Description
This plate depicts the customs and Habits of the people who live around Cape of Good Hope with a description of animals and reptiles found in this area.
Taken from "Atlas Historique…", published in Amsterdam between 1705-1720,the folio sheet includes a small map of South Africa surrounded by elegantly engraved views of of native costume, indigenous animals and explanatory remarks.
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.
Engraving, fine later hand colour, in very good condition.
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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