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This fine large two sheet decorative plate features the House of Valois. The large family tree bears four vignette views below of the Place Royale, Tuilleries and Palais du Luxembourg in Paris. It was published in the final seventh 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.
CHATELAIN, Henri Abraham
Carte Genealogique de la Maison de Valois et des Principales branches quelle a Formees Ilustree de leurs Artmes et de leurs Alliances avec des Remarques pour servir a l'Eclaircissement de l'Histoire
Amsterdam, c.1719
405 x 965 mm., two sheets joined as one, in recent full wash colour, good condition.
Stock number: 9713
£ 195