(LOUISIANA TERRITORY) Barbé Marbois François Marquis de Hist

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(LOUISIANA TERRITORY.) Barbé-Marbois, François, Marquis de. Histoire de la Louisiane. Folding hand-colored map. 8vo, modern 1/4 calf; inked library stamp on title page; moderate foxing, short tears to map, closed marginal tears to 2 leaves; partly unopened, with half-title. Paris, 1829

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first edition. "Barbé-Marbois represented France in the preliminary negotiations with the United States on the Louisiana purchase and his book is one of the main sources on that subject. . . . The important map in the first edition indicated the 110th meridian as the western extent of Louisiana"--Streeter sale III:1599. Howes B115 ("aa"); Monaghan, French Travellers 135; Sabin 3306; Wheat, Transmississippi West 385 and page II:97.