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A Map of the State of Louisiana with Part of the Mississippi Territory from Actual Survey. Philadelphia: John Melish, 1816.
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DARBY, William (1775-1854)
A Map of the State of Louisiana with Part of the Mississippi Territory from Actual Survey. Philadelphia: John Melish, 1816.
The first detailed map of Louisiana after its admission to the Union in 1812: rare second edition, with significant changes from the first including the introduction of ten counties into Mississippi and the repositioning and renaming of the Indian Boundary Line. 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. Darby was a former deputy surveyor of the U.S. General Land Office under Andrew Jackson in 1814-15, and indeed the map was well admired by the future president, who wrote ‘I have no doubt whatever that Mr. Darby's Map of Louisiana is more correct than any which has been published of that country’. A London edition was issued by Arrowsmith in 1817, and further US editions were issued at New York and New Orleans. Phillips Maps p.372; Ristow p.142; Streeter Texas 1057; Schwartz and Ehrenberg p.239.
Large engraved folding map, hand-coloured in outline, to a scale of 1 inch to 10 miles (1:633,600), dissected in 32 panels and mounted on linen between marbled paper covers, silk edging ribbon, 846 x 1176mm (unfolded), 215 x 149mm (folded) (ribbon somewhat frayed, line with some small holes between sections of map, 70mm split to linen at lower edge, a few unobtrusive damp stains). Provenance: James Hargreaves, Sawley (printed label on reverse).
A Map of the State of Louisiana with Part of the Mississippi Territory from Actual Survey. Philadelphia: John Melish, 1816.
The first detailed map of Louisiana after its admission to the Union in 1812: rare second edition, with significant changes from the first including the introduction of ten counties into Mississippi and the repositioning and renaming of the Indian Boundary Line. 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. Darby was a former deputy surveyor of the U.S. General Land Office under Andrew Jackson in 1814-15, and indeed the map was well admired by the future president, who wrote ‘I have no doubt whatever that Mr. Darby's Map of Louisiana is more correct than any which has been published of that country’. A London edition was issued by Arrowsmith in 1817, and further US editions were issued at New York and New Orleans. Phillips Maps p.372; Ristow p.142; Streeter Texas 1057; Schwartz and Ehrenberg p.239.
Large engraved folding map, hand-coloured in outline, to a scale of 1 inch to 10 miles (1:633,600), dissected in 32 panels and mounted on linen between marbled paper covers, silk edging ribbon, 846 x 1176mm (unfolded), 215 x 149mm (folded) (ribbon somewhat frayed, line with some small holes between sections of map, 70mm split to linen at lower edge, a few unobtrusive damp stains). Provenance: James Hargreaves, Sawley (printed label on reverse).
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