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This decorative plate features the fabled city of Lovango in the Congo, West Africa. The central vignette birds-eye view of the town above bears descriptive notes below. Each side bears 5 further vignettes each of the natives and customs of the region. It was published in the sixth volume of the encyclopaedic atlas by Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684-1743) entitled ‘Atlas Historique ou Nouvelle Introduction a l’Histoire, a la Chronologie & a la Geographie’. It was issued from 1705 to 1720 in 7 volumes. Koeman II p. 33; Phillips 579; Shirley ‘Atlases in the BL’ T.Chat-1a; Van Waning ‘Chatelain’s Atlas Historique’ in IMCoS Journal 120 pp. 7-15.
CHATELAIN, Henri Abraham

Vue & Description de la Ville de Lovango dans le Royaume de Congo ...

Amsterdam, c.1719
380 x 440 mm., in recent full wash colour, good condition.
Stock number: 9718
£ 95
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