Print Canada Castor Indians by Chatelain 1719

Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684-1743)

[Antique history print, engraving] I Canada: Description des Castors… [Canada], published 1719, 1 p.

Name: [Antique history print, engraving] I Canada: Description des Castors... [Canada], published 1719, 1 p.
SKU: PR121302
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Illustration from the sixth volume of Henry Abraham Chatelain’s (1684-1743) Atlas Historique, ou Nouvelle Introduction a l’Histoire a la Chronoligie & a la Geographie Ancienne & Modern…, published in Amsterdam in 1719. It depicts ethnographic and faunal aspects of Canada. For instance, it illustrates beavers and their industry, as well as Canadian Indians’ canoes, dwellings, hunting, fishing, clothes, rituals, customs and writings.

Chatelain was a Huguenot pastor of Parisian origins. He is best known as a Dutch cartographer and more specifically for his cartographic contribution in the seminal seven volume Atlas Historique, published in Amsterdam between 1705-1720. Innovative for its time, the Altlas Historique combined fine engravings and artwork with scholarly studies of geography, history, ethnology, heraldry, and cosmography. Rather than a personal endeavor, the publication was a family enterprise involving Henri, his father Zacharie and his brother, also Zacharie.

Titled above: DESCRIPTION DES CASTORS & DE LEUR INDUSTRIE DES CANOTS. HABITATIONS, HABELLIMENTS… / Tom VI N. 22 Pag. 90.

The page is divided in three columns, each with two or three illustrations and text. The various passages are titled:

Des Canots, illustration and explanation of the working of canoes;
Castor de 26 Pouces de loungueur entre teste et queue / Des Castors
Les Hurons & les autres sauvages…
Amours & mariages des Sauvages / Hieroglyphes des Sauvages
Habits & Logements
Deleurs enterremens & autres usages

[NL] Illustratie uit het zesde deel van Henry Abraham Chatelain’s (1684-1743) Atlas Historique, ou Nouvelle Introduction a l’Histoire a la Chronoligie & a la Geographie Ancienne & Modern…, gepubliceerd in Amsterdam in 1719. Het toont etnografische en fauna-aspecten van Canada. Zo illustreert het bevers en hun nijverheid, maar ook de kano’s, woningen, jacht, visserij, kleding, rituelen, en geschriften van Canadese Indianen.

Indians – Indianen – Inheemse bevolking – Native inhabitants of Canada

SKU: PR121302

Engraving on laid paper with wide margins; total: 443 x 540 mm; vertical folding crease at center with some damage towards the bottom; some rubbing though overall in very good condition. Visible watermark on the right side of the sheet.

€ 290,40 (€ 240,00 ex. btw)

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