DELISLE GUILLAUME Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Missi

Sale 2384 - Lot 37

Price Realized: $ 3,500

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Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500

FIRST STATE, FIRST ISSUE. DELISLE, GUILLAUME. Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi Dressee sur un Grand Nombre de Memoires entrautres sur ceux de Mr. le Maire par Guillaume. Del'Isle de l'Academie Rle. des Sciences. Double-page engraved map of the Mississippi watershed, the seminal map for that region. 540x715 mm, wide margins, versp blank; later wash hand-color in outline; a nice example. 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.