Item details: Singularez Curieuses des Royaumes de Maroc et de Fez dans la Barbarie
£ 125.00
CHATELAIN, Henri Abraham
Singularez Curieuses des Royaumes de Maroc et de Fez dans la Barbarie
Imprint: Amsterdam, c.1719
375 x 470 mm., in recent full wash colour, good condition.
This ornate plate details Morocco and the Barbary coast. The central map is flanked with historical notes and six decorative vignettes. It was published in the sixth 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.