Henri Abraham Chatelain; 1684-1743.

Precious little is known about this author, safe for having been a military engineer serving King Louis XIV.
His claim to fame comes from his very successful "Description de l'Univers", a pocket size thick geography book in five volumes, replete with encyclopedic details, historical data, scores of illustrations (landscapes, decisive battle scenes, towns, forts, harbors,...), and quite a few simple maps. The book was published between 1683 and 1688.
Owing to the book's popularity, due in part to its convenient size and its extensive use of illustrations, it was published again in Frankfurt, Germany, by Johann David Zunner in 1685 and for a final time in Frankfurt in 1719 by J.A. Jung.
Of note also his "Les Travaux de Mars" in 1672 on the art of fortification, and "La Géométrie Pratique" in 1702, a massive study in geometry, trigonometry, planimetry and land survey.

Nouveau Continent Avec plusieurs Isles

This small map (3 15/16" X 5 9/16") was originally designed for the 1683 "Description de l'Univers". The present item was printed for the 1719 edition.
It shows the entire western hemisphere in a rather antiquated manner.
Notice in particular the California Island (the concept of an insular California had been abandoned after the missionary travels of father Euzebio Kino who walked to Baja from Arizona in 1701, and drew a map of a peninsular California in 1705….still the Island of California kept being shown on quite a few maps till 1730!).
Notice also the prominent Solomon Islands and a very tentative New Zealand.
Alaska is absent, and in its place one finds the famous fictitious Northwest Passage (a waterway linking the Pacific to the Atlantic).
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