Title:

Carte qui contient une description des iles & terres que les Anglois possedent dans l'Amerique Septentrionale et en particulier de la Jamaique des iles Barbades de la Nouvelle Angleterre des Bermudes de la Caroline de la Pensilvanie et du New-Foundland avec un etat dechaque pais du tems de sa decouverte de ses sifferentes productions et de la nature du commerce quis'y fait / Carte de la Jamaique nouvellement reveue, divisee en ses gournemens ou paroisses avec ses ports bayes etc.

Description:

This folio sheet combines informative text with inset maps of English possessions in North America and the Caribbean. The maps include the islands of Jamaica, Bermuda and Barbados. Further maps show the region around New York, the Carolinas, Pensilvania, Maryland and Virginia, and Newfoundland.

Publication: Atlas Historique, ou nouvelle introduction a l'histoire, a la chronologie & a la geographie ancienne & moderne. A Amersterdam, chez L'Hoinore & Chatelain Libraires. Author: Chatelain. H,. Vol. 1, publ. 1721

Cartographer: Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 - 1743) was a Huguenot pastor of Parisian origins. He lived consecutively in Paris, St. Martins, London (c. 1710), The Hague (c. 1721) and Amsterdam (c. 1728). 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 (d.1723) and his brother, also Zacharie (1690 – 1754). They worked as a partnership publishing the Atlas under several different Chatelain imprints, depending on the Chatelain family partnerships at the time of publication. 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 costume of the world. The images incorporated into the plates and tables were drawn from the best available contemporary sources, including the works of Dapper, Chardin, de Bruyn and Le Hay. Many of the maps are based on the work of Guillaume de l'Lisle.

Condition: Very good. The sheet is evenly aged toned, commensurate with its age. Folds as issued. Blank verso. Minor tears, if any, have been mended with archival tissue. The attached photo is part of the item description, please examine carefully.

Color: Uncoloured

Size (h x w): 44.0 x 52.5 cm. (Sheet)

Technique: copper-plate engraving.

Ref: JJB2421