CHATELAIN, H. - Description des habits des Persans..

This impressive engraving is a wonderful example of Chatelain’s elegant plates.
Ornamented with numerous vignettes showing the costumes of the ancient Persians.
General information about clothing and hairstyle is given in lengthy tables.
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.