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Carte du Gouvernement Ecclesiastique Civil et Militaire de l’Empire, de l’Ordre Teutonique, et de Malte, et des Villes Anseatiques.

  • ARTIST: Henri Chatelain

  • PUBLISHER: Published in Amsterdam by L’Honore & Chatelain.

  • MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving printed on fine laid paper,

    DATE: 1720

  • EDITION SIZE: 13 5/8 x 17 3/4" (347 x 452 mm) plus margins.

  • DESCRIPTION: This impressive engraving is a wonderful example of Chatelain’s elegant plates. Included in the 1720 edition of Atlas Historique, published by Chatelain in Amsterdam, this large chart is the twenty-seventh plate in volume two. This handsome plate is comprised of numerous vignettes depicting the Teutonic Order government in session. The sheet is filled with a long explanative text, as well as a detailed tabular key identifying the various people depicting in the images. This fine print is a wonderful example from Chatelain’s important text.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Good condition. Black and white.

  • REFERENCE: Phillips, A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress, 305, 548, & 579; Moreland & Bannister, Antique Maps; Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, vol. II. p. 33-38.

  • CATEGORIES: Maps