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Rare First Edition of The Lucas Map of New Jersey

Nice example of Fielding Lucas' early map of New Jersey, from his New & Elegant General Atlas of the United States . . .

Hand colored by counties, this is one of the first maps of New Jersey printed in America.

Striking example of Fielding Lucas' fine work, which distinguished him as the best publisher of the era.

This is the first time we have ever offered this first edition of the map.

Fielding Lucas Jr. Biography

Fielding Lucas, Jr. (1781-1854) was a prominent American cartographer, engraver, artist, and public figure during the first half of the 19th century.

Lucas was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia and moved to Philadelphia as a teenager, before settling in Baltimore. There he launched a successful cartographic career. Lucas's first atlas was announced in early- to mid-1812, with production taking place between September 1812 and December of 1813, by which point the engravings were complete. Bound copies of the atlas -- A new and elegant general atlas: Containing maps of each of the United States -- were available early in the next year, beating Carey to market by about two months. Lucas later published A General Atlas Containing Distinct Maps Of all the known Countries in the World in the early 1820s.