CHATELAIN, H. - Carte des Indes, de la Chine & des Isles de Sumatra, Java &c..

This fine and quite detailed general map extends from northern Japan to Timor and from India to New Guinea.
Here, the Terre de Yeco in northern Japan is still joined to the mainland as a peninsula, and much of the interior of China is shown according to Jesuit surveys.
The outline of Borneo retains it globular form as shown on older mapping.
The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "Mer Orientale ou Mer de Corée".

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.

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