Original Antique Map of Peru and Plan of Lima by Henri Abraham Chatelain, 1719

Name: Original Antique Map of Peru and Plan of Lima by Henri Abraham Chatelain, 1719
Brand: Chatelain
SKU: BG-14303-27
Price: 545 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1719
Maker: Chatelain
Kind: Maps
Size: 53 × 35.8 cm (20.9 × 14.1 in)
Condition: Good. Good antique condition. General age-related toning and light wear consistent with age. small tear in the folding line. Please study the photographs carefully for the best impression of condition.
Period: Colonial America
Places: Peru
Reference: BG-14303-27

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

A plate on Peru from Henri Abraham Chatelain's Atlas Historique, an original engraving published in Amsterdam around 1719. The long French title across the top reads "Carte Particulière du Pérou, Plan de la Ville de Lima, Description de quelques Plantes, Animaux, & Machines du Pays, Avec l'Habillement des Hommes & des Femmes Espagnoles qui y Demeurent".

The sheet combines several images with text. At the center top is the regional map of Peru, with its coast on the Pacific and the interior lettered "Provinces des Amazones". To its left, an engraved vignette shows a llama and plants with local machines, and to its right a domestic interior with Spanish men and women in the dress of the colony. Across the lower half, the French "Description de Lima" runs in columns around a plan of the city, laid out in a regular grid beside the river.

Chatelain (1684 to 1743), a Huguenot publisher in Amsterdam, built his atlas around such sheets, joining maps with illustrations and explanatory text on geography, trade and natural history.

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