1719 Carte Tres Curieuse de la Mer du Sud...

Carte Tres Curieuse de la Mer du Sud, Contenant Des Remarquwa Nouvelles et Tres Utiles Non Seulement Sur Les Ports et Iloes de Cette Mer… By: Henri Abraham Chatelain Date: 1719 (Published) AmsterdamDimensions: 32.5 x 56 inches (83 cm x 142 cm) This map comes with a nice frame at no extra cost aside from shipping. This magnificent map is one of the most sought after of all Chatelain’s works, and this is a particularly fine, exquisitely hand-colored example of it. Chatelain's "very curious map" is one of the most spectacular examples of the marriage between cartography and graphic art. While the focus of the map is the Americas, it extends to the entire Pacific including the East Indies and Japan, and all the Atlantic including large areas of western Europe and Africa. The map is based on De Fer’s map of 1713 and was published in Chatelain’s monumental work, Atlas Historique. One’s eye is immediately drawn to the fantastic mythical island of California, which ‘existed’ until relatively r