Description
Six meticulously detailed and engraved scenes of the island of St. Kitts, also known as Saint Christopher, and the
province of Bemarin, indigenous plants, animals, reptiles, fish, crustaceans and insects.
On a single sheet from Volume Six of Chatelain's "Atlas Historique".
From left to right, top, the illustrations depict the French General's palace on St. Kitts, Indians visiting the French, and a landscape in Bemarin Province.
Zacharie Chatelain (d.1723) was the father of Henri Abraham (1684-1743) and Zacharie Junior (1690-1754).
They worked as a partnership publishing the
Atlas Historique, Ou Nouvelle Introduction A L’Histoire … under several different Chatelain imprints, depending on the Chatelain family partnerships at the time of publication.
The atlas was published in seven volumes between 1705 and 1720, with a second edition appearing in 1732. The maps were accompanied by information pertaining to cosmography, geography, history, chronology, genealogy, topography, heraldry, and costume of the world.