Antique Print-EMPIRES-ASSYRIAN-PERSIAN-CHINESE-Chatelain-1732

Price: € 127,50

Subject: Antique print, titled: 'Carte pour servir a l‘ inteligence de l’Histoire de la cronologie et de la geographie des Empires des Assiriens, des Perses, des Egiptiens et des Chinois. ' - ('Chart for the history, chronology and geography of the Assyrian, Persian, Egyptian and Chinese empires'). A map of Europe, Asia and northern Africa, surrounded by chronological tables.

Condition: Excellent, given age. Original middle fold, as issued. Small tear in right margin and in top margin, reinforced using contemporary paper backed with acid free archival tape. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Medium: Etching/engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 51.8 x 42.5 cm. The image size is ca. 44.3 x 33.5 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 20.4 x 16.7 inch. The image size is ca. 17.4 x 13.2 inch.

Part Number: 50523

Location: B8-33

Description: This print/map originates from: "Atlas Historique..." (Historic Atlas...), Published by Zacharie Chatelain, Amsterdam, 1732. Published in seven volumes between 1705 and 1720, (2nd edition in 1732). The maps were accompanied by information on cosmography, geography, history, genealogy, heraldry, and costumes of the world. The maps in the Atlas Historique were mainly based on those of the French cartographer, Guillaume De L'Isle, but were presented by Chatelain in an encyclopaedic form.

Artists and Engravers: Made by an anonymous engraver after 'Henri Abraham Chatelain'. Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684-1743), his father Zacharie Chatelain (d.1723) and Zacharie Junior (1690-1754), worked as a partnership publishing the Atlas Historique, Ou Nouvelle Introduction A L'Histoire under several different Chatelain imprints, depending on the Chatelain family partnerships at the time of publication.