Burr, David H. “Scotland”

David H. Burr.   “Scotland.”  From A New Universal Atlas (1835). 

New York: Illman & Pilbrow, 1834.  12 5/8 x 10 1/2.  Engraving by Illman & Pilbrow.  Full original color.  Very good condition. 

An excellent map by David H. Burr, one of the most important American cartographers of the first part of the nineteenth century.  Having studied under Simeon DeWitt, Burr produced the second state atlas issued in the United States, of New York in 1829.  He was then appointed to be geographer for the U.S. Post Office and later geographer to the House of Representatives.  As a careful geographer, Burr is painstaking in this map to put in only information for which he felt there was a scientific basis.  Burr’s maps are scarce and quite desirable.