Carte du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France, & les découvertes qui y ont été faites...

Chatelain's map of Canada showing the Great Lakes and Saint Laurent River.

The map extends from Baffin Bay and Greenland in the North, till Maryland in the south. From the west it is left open toward the "Nouvelle Denmark" and indigenous lands and stretches east till the Bank of  Newfoundland. Very detailed, the map includes rich mentions of indigenous places with notes describing the people an example is: "Pays des Moozemlek qui ont beaucoup de politesse" (Country of the Moozemlek who have a lot of politeness), it also depicts forts, the flows of the region's rivers, and the locations of many lakes including: Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, Lake of Ontario, Lake of Illinois... In the top left corner, the author included an explanatory note that briefly introduces the historical context of 17th century Canada. The title is included in bold black type along the top boarder, a typical feature of Chatelain's maps.

The Historical Atlas of Chatelain

A complex and ambitious work, Henri Abraham Châtelain's Atlas Historique is one of the most complete encyclopedias of its time. Originally published in Amsterdam between 1705 and 1720 by L'Honoré and Châtelain, the Atlas Historique was corrected, enlarged and republished until 1739, date of the fourth and last edition. Designed for the general public, fascinated at the beginning of the 18th century by the newly conquered colonies, the new discoveries, the distant countries (such as the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, Mongolia, China, Japan, Indonesia...), it is illustrated with numerous maps, many of which are based on those of the French cartographer Guillaume Delisle.