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Spectacular chart of the 17 provinces of the Low Countries, including coats of arms and the battles with the English fought in the English Channel during the later half of the 17th Century and the Spanish in 1573. From Chatelain's monumental 7 volume Atlas Historique.
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.
![[ Rhine, Waal & Meuse / Maas Rivers ] Tractus Rheni et Mosae totusque Vahalis à Rhenoberca Gorcomium usque cum turris adjacentibus ducatus Cliviae regno Noviomagensi et Bommelerwaer . . .](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/99171.jpg)
