Item details: Description d'un des Plus Fameux Temples des Chinois, avec leurs Principales Idoles
£ 125.00
CHATELAIN, Henri Abraham
Description d'un des Plus Fameux Temples des Chinois, avec leurs Principales Idoles
Imprint: Amsterdam, 1719
345 x 450 mm., full wash colour, in good condition.
This plate illustrates the famous pagoda in Fokien Province flanked by other Chinese divine images. It was published in the fifth volume of the encyclopaedic atlas by Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684-1743) entitled 'Atlas Historique ou Nouvelle Introduction a l'Histoire, a la Chronologie & a la Geographie'. It was issued from 1705 to 1720 in 7 volumes. Koeman II p. 33; Phillips 579; Shirley 'Atlases in the BL' T.Chat-1a; Van Waning 'Chatelain's Atlas Historique' in IMCoS Journal 120 pp. 7-15.