Charting Louisiana : Five Hundred Years of Maps

Lemmon, A E , Magill, J T and Wiese, J R

ISBN 10: 0917860470 / ISBN 13: 9780917860478

Published by The Historic New Orleans Collection, 2003

About this Item

oblong folio , i-xxii, 383 pp ,193 coloured plates illustrating charts and maps dating from 1524-1985, other illustrations . Laminated boards as issued, lacks dust wrapper, light bumping to corners but generally an excellent copy of a magnificent work . Produced in an edition of 5000 copies to commemorate The Louisiana Purchase. As well as a beautiful record this is a work of considerable scholarship and importance. Overseas postage charges will be extra due to weight of the book.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Charting Louisiana : Five Hundred Years of Maps
• Publisher: The Historic New Orleans Collection
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0917860470
• ISBN 13: 9780917860478
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Winner of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities 2004 Humanities Book of the Year Award, the Louisiana Library Association's 2004 Louisiana Literary Award, and the Gulf South Historical Association's 2004 Best Book on the Gulf South Award. The name "Louisiana" has always held a special allure, calling forth images of a rich colonial past, a land filled with exotic flora and fauna, and a territory that once extended across stretches of North America. Tracing the discovery, colonization, and development of the region, Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps relates the epic history of Louisiana. From the earliest appearance of the Gulf Coast on a 16th-century woodcut to a color-enhanced satellite view of the state, the atlas presents an extraordinary gathering of 193 manuscripts and printed maps (all full-color plates), many of them rarely made available to the public. Six essays lead the reader across the historical panorama of Louisiana as found in its cartography.

About the Author

Alfred E. Lemmon is Director of the Williams Research Center of The Historic New Orleans Collection. An authority on French and Spanish colonial cultural history, he has been published in numerous books, encyclopedias, and scholarly journals in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. Light Townsend Cummins is the Guy M. Bryan Professor of History, Emeritus, at Austin College and served as the official State Historian of Texas in 2012. Richard Campanella, Senior Professor of Practice at the Tulane School of Architecture, is the author of ten books and over two hundred other publications on New Orleans and Louisiana geography, history, architecture, urbanism, and culture.