This color facsimile reproduces the first edition, second state of the atlas.Originally published in 1829 under the superintendence of Simeon DeWitt, Surveyor General of New York,An Atlas of the State of New Yorkby David H. Burr holds a remarkable place in American cartographic history. Engraved by the distinguished firms of Rawdon, Clark & Co. of Albany and Rawdon, Wright & Co. of New York, the atlas comprises individual county maps alongside physical geography and statistical tables, representing one of the most ambitious documentary surveys of any American state at the time of its publication.
