Historic Map : Burr Map of New Jersey, 1835, Vintage Wall Art

Historic Map : Burr Map of New Jersey, 1835, Vintage Wall ArtThis is an attractive 1835 first edition map of New Jersey by David H. Burr. It depicts the state of New Jersey in detail with color coding at a county level. Notes roads, railways, rivers, islands, cities and towns with elevation rendered by hachure. According to Ristow, although Burr is credited on the title page, he left this atlas incomplete. He was appointed as topographer to the U. S. Post Office, and of the siin xty three maps finally included

This is an attractive 1835 first edition map of New Jersey by David H. Burr. It depicts the state of New Jersey in detail with color-coding at a county level. Notes roads, railways, rivers, islands, cities and towns with elevation rendered by hachure.

According to Ristow, although Burr is credited on the title page, he left this atlas incomplete. He was appointed as topographer to the U.S. Post Office, and of the siin xty-three maps finally included in this atlas, only completed eight. The rest of the maps were then completed by Illman and Pilbrow in Burr's style. This map was ‘Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1835 by Thomas Illman in the Clerk's office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York'. Published by D. S. Stone in Burr's New Universal Atlas