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Striking map centered on Cyprus and Asia Minor of the region bounded by the Mediterranean in the West and the Caspian and Persia in the East. Extends North to the Black Sea and the Ukraine and South to the the source of the Nile, the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf.
The map appeared in Chatelain's monumental Atlas Historique, published in Paris.
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.
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