Mar 30, 2006 - Sale 2074

Sale 2074 - Lot 90

Price Realized: $ 3,450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
SENEX, JOHN. A Map of Louisiana and of the River Mississipi. Double-page engraved map, 490x575 mm, wide margins; hand-colored in outline; light to moderate foxing, most heavy in margins, few scattered marginal tears (not affecting image), soft extraneous vertical crease. London, 1721

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"This is 'a most impudent plagiarism' from Delisle, for it is closely based on his 1718 map"--Cumming 182. Charting Louisiana, Plate 21.