DELISLE GUILLAUME Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Missi

Sale 2074 - Lot 57

Price Realized: $ 10,925

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500

FIRST MAP TO NAME TEXAS DELISLE, GUILLAUME. Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi. Double-page engraved map, 495x655 mm, wide margins; hand-colored in outline; a bit tattered at the edges but not affecting the map, several short repaired tears, including a 50-mm tear just extending into the image from the bottom margin; very slightly toned. Paris, 1718

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"Generally regarded as main source of all later maps of the Mississippi . . . The first map with the name Texas"--Schwartz and Ehrenberg, plate 84, page 146. Cumming 170; Charting Lousiana, plate 18, page 58.