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Auction 193, Lot 261
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"A New Map of Louisiana with Its Canals, Roads & Distances from Place to Place, Along the Stage & Steam Boat Routes", Tanner, Henry Schenck

Subject: Louisiana

Period: 1839 (dated)

Publication: New Universal Atlas

Color: Hand Color

Size:
14.1 x 11.2 inches
35.8 x 28.4 cm
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Attractive state map showing early county configurations with good detail of cities, towns, roads, canals and railroads. Features a large inset of New Orleans with a key to important buildings. Tables at left display the distances along various steamboat routes to and from New Orleans. County development is circa 1840 with the recently organized counties of Union (1839) in the north and Calcasieu (1840) in the southwest.

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Condition: B+

Full contemporary color with light toning, a few repaired edge tears, and two minor chips all confined to the blank margins. There is a seller's stamp on verso that barely shows through in the left blank margin.

Estimate: $140 - $170

Sold for: $70

Closed on 6/21/2023

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