Ethnographic, Travel & Exploration

42x37 cm

PORTRAITS DU MOUFTI & AUTRES GENS DE LOI DE L'EMPIRE OTTOMAN AVEC CELUI D'UN EMIR & DU PATRIARCHE DES GRECS, TIREZ SUR LES LIEUX D'APRES NATURE OU D'APRES LES ORIGINAUX

Hand coloured engraving from Chatelain's Atlas Historique published from 1705 to 1720.
Showing (whirling) Dervishers in the Temple of Pera flanked by four portraits with descriptive French text of a Mufti [Islamic Jurist],  an Emir [High ranking official], an Imam [Religious leader], and a Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church.

Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684-1743) was a Dutch cartographer who lived in Paris, London [c.1710], The Hague [c.1721] and Amsterdam [c.1728], and is best known for this publication, a huge seven volume work containing mainly geographical engravings and descriptions but including historical, genealogical and historical information.

Fine condition.