Vue & description de la ville de Siam, des Pagodes, des Talapoins oureligeux ce ce pais, des balons du roi & de ses elephans, de la maniere de dompter ces ..

Page with a profile view on the capital Ayutthaya, the throne of the King, the King who rides an elephant, ships on a lake, the typical plants such as ginseng, the monks and tangerines, the elephant fight, and the pagodas.

This impressive engraving is a wonderful example of Chatelain’s elegant plates.
Exhaustive information about each scene 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.

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