Description d' un des plus Fameux Temples des Chinois, avec leurs Principales Idoles telles que la Figure. . .

An interesting folio sheet with three engravings illustrating Chinese religion. The central engraving is of a pagoda in the Province of Fokien, which is flanked by two drawings of Chinese divinities. French text below, from Chatelain's monumental 'Atlas Historique'.

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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