OSMANLI İMPARATORLUĞU HARİTA

CARTE DE LA TURQUIE, DE L’ARABIE ET DE LA PERSE AVEC LEURS DEPENDANCES.
CHATELAIN, Henri, Amsterdam, 1719 45 x 35.5 cm.
Superbly engraved map of the region from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, based upon Guillaume De L’Isle’s map of the same title.
The map illustrates the Turkish Empire, Persian Empire and Arab regions, at the beginning of the 18th Century.
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.