Item details: Vue Et Description Des Principales Villes De L'Armenie …
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CHATELAIN, Henri Abraham
Vue Et Description Des Principales Villes De L'Armenie …
Imprint: Amsterdam, c.1715
375 x 495 mm., recent full wash colour, in good condition.
This plate focuses on Armenia and illustrates five key towns including Tiblsi and five further vignettes of costumes. 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.
Stock number:9205.