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DARBY, William (b. 1775). A Map of the State of Louisiana with Part of the Mississippi Territory from Actual Survey. Philadelphia: John Melish, 1816.
Engraved folding map by Samuel Harrison, dissected into 32 sections and mounted on linen, edged in later green cloth, colored in outline, 421 x 1173 mm (a few pale foxmarks, three soft printer's creases at top). Folds with marbled end sheets.
FIRST EDITION. Darby's was the first detailed map of the state after Lafon's maps of 1805 and 1806. Melish used this map in compiling his large U.S. map. Ristow notes that after Lafon's map, Darby's was "the next significant contribution to Louisiana's cartographic development." It outlines parishes and shows roads, rivers, swamps, soundings along the coast ans settlements. It includes not only all of the state of Louisiana but much of the Mississippi Territory as well, along with segments of west Florida and eastern Texas. For the text which was published to accompany the map, see previous lot. RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, the only copy to appear at auction in the last 30 years is the Siebert copy, sold Sotheby's New York, 28 October 1999. Phillips Maps p.372; Ristow p.142; Streeter Texas 1057; Schwartz and Ehrenberg p.239.
Engraved folding map by Samuel Harrison, dissected into 32 sections and mounted on linen, edged in later green cloth, colored in outline, 421 x 1173 mm (a few pale foxmarks, three soft printer's creases at top). Folds with marbled end sheets.
FIRST EDITION. Darby's was the first detailed map of the state after Lafon's maps of 1805 and 1806. Melish used this map in compiling his large U.S. map. Ristow notes that after Lafon's map, Darby's was "the next significant contribution to Louisiana's cartographic development." It outlines parishes and shows roads, rivers, swamps, soundings along the coast ans settlements. It includes not only all of the state of Louisiana but much of the Mississippi Territory as well, along with segments of west Florida and eastern Texas. For the text which was published to accompany the map, see previous lot. RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, the only copy to appear at auction in the last 30 years is the Siebert copy, sold Sotheby's New York, 28 October 1999. Phillips Maps p.372; Ristow p.142; Streeter Texas 1057; Schwartz and Ehrenberg p.239.