Lot 476
Guillaume Delisle (French, 1675-1726), "Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi," Paris, 1718, second state, double page engraved map, probably later color, mounted on board, 19 1/4 in. x 25 1/8 in., framed together with, en verso, a highly accomplished manuscript of the same map translated into English, 17 in. x 21 in. References: Charting Louisiana, p.58; Cumming, p. 170; Schwartz and Ehrenberg, p. 146. Note: This is the first map to accurately describe the vast Mississippi Valley. It was widely copied and referred to for the next fifty years. It was the first printed map naming Texas (Mission de los Tiejas, 1716) and in this second state the first map to name the newly established town of Nouvelle Orleans.
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