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Title: Louisiana Author: [Arrowsmith] and S[amuel] Lewis Place: [Philadelphia] Publisher: Date: [1804] Description: Engraved map, engraved by a young H.S. Tanner. 25x20.2 cm. (9¾x8"), hinged to mat. "Small but significant" map, from Arrowsmith & Lewis's 1804 Atlas, published just as Lewis and Clark were heading into the unknown. "It is not too much to say that, until Lewis and Clark's own map appeared in print in 1814, the Soulard map, in the version offered to the public by Arrowsmith and Lewis in 1804, constituted the most ambitious, and-despite its many obvious infirmities-the most informative published attempt to portray the West and Northwest of what is now the United States" (Wheat). The Rocky Mountains are present and a shockingly nearby Pacific Ocean. Wheat Transmississippi 259. Lot Amendments Condition: Slight rubbing near St. Louis; very good or better. Item number: 213897