Apr 08, 2014 - Sale 2344

Sale 2344 - Lot 163

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(LOUISIANA TERRITORY.) Barbé-Marbois, François, Marquis de. Histoire de la Louisiane. Folding hand-colored map. 8vo, contemporary 1/4 calf, moderate wear; moderate foxing; printed front wrapper bound in, half-title present; early bookseller's tag of Michel de Grilleau on front pastedown, inscribed by the author on wrapper "affect por l'auteur, Marbois." 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. Rarely seen with the original wrapper--we know of no others at auction since the Streeter copy, last sold in 1971. We know of no other copy inscribed by the author. Howes B115 ("aa"); Monaghan, French Travellers 135; Wheat, Transmississippi West 385 and page II:97.