"Charting Louisiana - Five Hundred Years of Maps"

Subject: References, Louisiana Territory

Period: 2003 (published)

Publication:

Color: Printed Color

Size:

14.4 x 12.3 inches
36.6 x 31.2 cm

This illuminating and elegantly laid out reference was published by the Historic New Orleans Collection on the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase. An essential for collectors interested in the Bayou State, the book examines the history and development of Louisiana through a cartographic lens. It is divided into six chapters, each from a different author: "Discovery and Early Cartography of the Northern Gulf Coast" by Paul E. Hoffman; "La Louisiane / La Luisiana: A Bourbon Colony" by Alfred E. Lemmon; "'Forming a General Geographical Idea of a Country': Mapping Louisiana from 1803 to 1820" by Ralph E. Ehrenberg; "Mapping Louisiana in the Nineteenth Century" by Mark F. Fernandez; "Torrents of Change: Louisiana in the Modern Age" by Jason R. Wiese; and "New Orleans Through Three Centuries" by John T. Magill. In addition to the 193 maps depicted, there are numerous illustrations peppered throughout the text, most in gorgeous color. Hardbound with illustrated covers and an illustrated dust jacket. 383 pages.

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Condition: A

Contents are clean and tight. There a few minor bumps to the covers.