Carte de la Louisiane, et de la Floride

Subject

Colonial Louisiana, from the Mississippi River in the west, to Charleston in the east; and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Illinois River. Many Indian tribes and early European settlements located. Several eighteenth-century Indian tribes living in the present-day areas of Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, Illinois,Tennessee, and Kentucky are located on this map.

Date
[1780]
Mapmaker
Bonne, [Charles Marie Rigobert]; André, engraver
Publisher

[Pellet, J. L.]

Place of Publication

[Paris]

Accession Number
1997.078.072
Alternate number
Lupin Collection
Condition
Good.
Curatorial Notes

Other copies/editions located 1980.014.005; 00885, T0019.1976. Although a previous cataloger identified this as coming from Bonne's "Atlas de Toutes les Parties", the title does not match that in Phillips, Vol. 1, p. 385, #652.

Exhibition History
1996 Sep - Mar, 1999, So Much More Than Just a Map
Insets
[Area surrounding Missouri River, showing location of Fort d'Orleans (abandoned), and land of the Osage Indians]
Market Value
2001 Jan: e-nola auction, lot #50, estimate $250-300
1999 Jun: The Prime Meridian: Antique Maps and Books, on line catalog, item #8, $285.00
1998 Nov: NO auction, item 1128, estimate 200/400
1998 Jul: Robert Putnam Antiquarian Maps & Books: $225.00 (c
Notes

Plate 46, Vol. 16, from Guillaume Thomas François Raynal's "atlas de toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre."

Size
12 3/4 x 8 1/4
Storage
c06d06