CHATELAIN

ETAT ABREGE DE LA MAISON DU GRAND SEIGNEUR, DE SES REVENUS ET LE GOUVERNEMENT CIVIL, MILITAIRE ET ECCLESIASTIQUE DE CET EMPIRE

CHATELAIN, Henri

1710, Paris

43 x 37 cm.

Finely engraved and beautifully colored plate showing views of “VUE DE CONSTANTINOPLE”, VUE DU SERAİL DU CONSTANTINOPLE” et “vue de sainte-sophıe”

The map appeared in Chatelain’s monumental Atlas Historique, published in Paris.

Henri Chatelain Biography:

Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684-1743) was a Huguenot pastor of Parisian origins. Chatelain proved a successful businessman, creating lucrative networks in London, The Hague, and then Amsterdam. He is most well known for the Atlas Historique, published in seven volumes between 1705 and 1720. This encyclopedic work was devoted to the history and genealogy of the continents, discussing such topics as geography, cosmography, topography, heraldry, and ethnography. Published thanks to a partnership between Henri, his father, Zacharie, and his younger brother, also Zacharie, the text was contributed to by Nicolas Gueudeville, a French geographer. The maps were by Henri, largely after the work of Guillaume Delisle, and they offered the general reader a window into the emerging world of the eighteenth century.