CHATELAIN, Henri Abraham. Description de la peche, habillemens, habitations, manieres de vivre, superstitions et autres usages des Indiens de la Virginie…
18th century
Copper engraving; 375 x 440 mm. Margins. Each vignette is accompanied by an explanation printed in French under the scene. Light marginal waterstains and stain at the central fold.
Views and descriptions of the lifestyle of Native Americans in Virginia whom the first European explorers encountered in the New World. The scenes depict ceremonial dances, burial practices, agriculture, hunting, villages and costumes.
Print included in the VI Volume "Atlas Historique ou nouvelle introduction a l'Histoire, à la Chronologie & à la Geographie Ancienne & Moderne", published in Amsterdam in 1719.
The atlas combines geographical maps with engravings and information of a geographical, heraldic, ethnographic and historical nature, making the work in seven volumes very innovative.
Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 - 1743), a Huguenot pastor, is known as a cartographer for his monumental cartographic work in seven volumes "Atlas Historique" published in Amsterdam with his brothers.