Title supplied by cataloger.
Issued as a frontispiece illustration to Henri Abraham Chatelain's Atlas historique, volume V (Amsterdam : Chez L'Honoré & Châtelain, 1719).
Library's copy imperfect; cropped at foot of sheet with loss of caption text, artist's signature, and date.
First line of caption verse: Asie & ses parfums, les trésors de l'Afrique
Allegorical frontispiece illustrating the themes of travel, colonial exploitation and international commerce. The continents are depicted as female figures. Asia, with a turban, sits holding a fuming censer with a camel standing behind her. Africa sits next to Asia with a lion sleeping at her feet. Standing before both of them is a female representing both North and South America, complete with armlets, leg bands, a feathered headdress, and a bow and arrows. Her left foot sits atop a severed head that has been punctured by a spear. The figure standing in the center is Navigation standing by an anchor and holding a steering rudder and cloth. In the skies above flies Mercury, with his traditional winged helmet, winged anklets and caduceus. The French prose below the scene touts the riches of Asia, Africa and the Americas.