Lot 242
Marquis François de Barbe-Marbois (French, 1745-1837), Histoire de la Louisiane et la Cession de cette Colonie par la France aux Etats-Unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale..., published by Firmin Didot, Paris, 1829, 12mo, first edition, leather, marbled boards, complete with scarce hand-colored, engraved map showing the Louisiana Purchase (sheet 11 1/2 in. x 14 3/4 in.) Note: Barbe-Marbois, "The man who sold Louisiana," became Napoleon's Secretary of the Treasury in 1801. In 1803 he was appointed to sell Louisiana to the United States for 50 million francs, but negotiated a higher price of 80 million, for which he was liberally rewarded by Napoleon.
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