Carte pour l'Introduction a l'Histoire d'Angleterre ou l'on voit son premier gouvernement, et l'Etat abrege de cette Monarchie sous les Empereurs Romains, et sous les Rois Saxons. (1720) A detailed and beautiful chart of English history, featuring a pair of maps of England and Wales, from Chatelain's Atlas Historique. The larger of the two maps shows the British Isles at the time of the Roman invasion, with the pre-Roman Celtic tribes and their territories marked, along with their fellow tribes on the European mainland. Roman settlements and cities are picked out in red and labelled with their latin titles in cursive. A large illustration in the top right shows the ahistoric, but charming, national dress of the naked and tattooed ancient Britons. Dashed and dotted lines also mark the migratory invasions of the Saxons and Danes. Below, a smaller boxed map divides England and Wales into the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy. The decorative border features roundels representing the monarchic line of the Kingdom of England, from Egbert to Queen Anne, while the line of Roman Emperors encircle the maps at centre. The rest of the sheet is taken up by large boxes of explanatory text. Published in 1720 in Amsterdam by Chatelain in his monumental ´Atlas Historique….´, volume 2. Good condition. Repair on the fold an the reverse side, not affecting the image. Very clear print. Thick paper. Image 51x59,5cm, sheet 52x64cm