Plan de l'Histoire universelle: ou l'on voit les quatre Monarchies du Monde, et tous les Anciens Etats...

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Original antique copper engraving, uncolored as published. Geographical map, contained in Volume I "Atlas Historique ou nouvelle Introduction a l'Histoire, à la Chronologie & à la Geographie Ancienne & Moderne", published in Amsterdam in 1713. Atlas, which, with its publication, includes geographic maps with engravings and information of a geographic, heraldic, ethnographic and historical nature, making the work in seven volumes very innovative. Engraved map of the Eastern Hemisphere with an inset of the Western Hemisphere in the center showing California as an island. Contains tables, notes and 7 cartoons illustrating the 7 wonders of the world Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 - 1743), a Huguenot pastor originally from Paris, lived alternately in Paris, London, The Hague and Amsterdam. Known as a Dutch cartographer for his monumental seven-volume cartographic work Atlas Historique, published with his brothers in Amsterdam.