Large Antique Map-EUROPE-COUNCILS OF CATHOLIC CHURCH-Chatelain-1732

Price: € 242,51

Subject: Original antique map, titled 'Nouvelle Carte des Conciles Generaux et Particuliers qui se sont Tenus en Europe en Asie en Afrique et Amerique ....'. It shows: a map of Europe, giving the places and dates for the General (Eucemenical) and Local (Particular) Councils of the Roman Catholic Church.

Condition: Very good. Small tear in lower margin, backed by contemporary paper and consolidated with acid free tape. Original folds from binding with paper separation at folds all backed and restored. Some creasing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Medium: Copperplate engraving and etching on a verge type handlaid paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 60.8 x 51 cm. The image size is ca. 55 x 48.5 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 23.2 x 20.5 inch. The image size is ca. 22.2 x 19.5 inch.

Part Number: 40398

Location: B8-24

Description: This original old antique print / plate originates from the fifth volume of: 'Atlas Historique...' (Historic Atlas...), Published by Zacharie Chatelain, Amsterdam, 1732. The atlas was published in seven volumes between 1705 and 1720, with a second edition appearing in 1732. The maps were accompanied by information pertaining to cosmography, geography, history, chronology, genealogy, topography, 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 the Chatelains in an encyclopaedic form. We do not know the exact edition of this map.

Artists and Engravers: 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.