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Antique maps by David Hugh Burr

David H. Burr studied law, passing the New York Bar Exam, and then surveying under Simeon DeWitt in New York. His first atlas was an atlas of New York State (1829), the second state atlas to be issued in the US (after Mills’ Atlas of South Carolina in 1826). In the 1830s, he served as the official topographer for the US Post Office, producing a series of rare and highly sought-after large-format state maps. He also created a map of the country’s postal routes, which features roads, canals, and railroads. Burr traveled to London to work with John Arrowsmith; together, they produced the American Atlas in 1839.

Upon his return to the States, Burr was appointed as a draftsman for the House of Representatives, where he worked until ca. 1841. He later worked for the Louisiana Survey and the Florida Survey. By 1850, he was back in Washington D. C., working on the census. In 1852, the Senate named Burr as the draftsman to compile maps from the Federal Surveys. In 1853, Burr traveled to San Francisco, perhaps as part of his work for the Senate. He was then named as the Surveyor General of Utah in 1855. However, he was unpopular there and returned to Washington D. C. by 1870. Burr is widely regarded as one of the most important names in the nineteenth-century American history of cartography.

World Map By David Hugh Burr
The World, on Mercator's Projection: By David H. Burr. Shewing the different routes to California, and distance by each Routes of different Navigators, route of the contemplated Pacific R. Road, Distances to China, Europe &c. . . . 1850
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1850
Size:
23 x 19 inches
Condition:
Good
Stock#:
72444
New Jersey and Pennsylvania Map By David Hugh Burr
[ First Postal Map of Pennsylvania & New Jersey ] Map of New Jersey and Pennsylvania Exhibiting the Post Offices, Post Roads, Canals, Rail Roads, & c.
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
Washington, D. C. / 1839
Size:
48 x 35.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
103212
India Map By David Hugh Burr
Hindostan
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
11 x 13 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
54725
South America Map By David Hugh Burr
South America
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
13 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
56165
Caribbean Map By David Hugh Burr
West Indies
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
12.5 x 10.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
70555
British Isles Map By David Hugh Burr
British Islands
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
10.5 x 12.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
70763
Poland Map By David Hugh Burr
Prussian States
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
12.5 x 10.5 inches
Condition:
See Description
Stock#:
70912
Eastern Canada Map By David Hugh Burr
Lower Canada
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
12.5 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
70963
Eastern Canada Map By David Hugh Burr
Newfoundland Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
12 x 10.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
70992
Texas, Southwest and California Map By David Hugh Burr
The United States of Mexico (Republic of Texas)
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
10.5 x 12.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
71100
Illinois Map By David Hugh Burr
Illinois By David H. Burr
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
11 x 13 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
71208
Maryland and Delaware Map By David Hugh Burr
Delaware and Mary-Land
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
12.5 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
71351
Kentucky and Tennessee Map By David Hugh Burr
Kentucky and Tennessee
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
12 x 10.5 inches
Condition:
Stock#:
71375
Ohio Map By David Hugh Burr
Ohio
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
13 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
71406
Missouri Map By David Hugh Burr
Missouri
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
13 x 10.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
71539
New Hampshire and Vermont Map By David Hugh Burr
Vermont and New Hampshire
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
10.5 x 12.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
71627
Maine Map By David Hugh Burr
Maine [showing disputed boundaries as claimed by US, New Brunswick, and as settled by the King of the Netherlands]
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
11 x 12.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
71923
New York State Map By David Hugh Burr
New-York. Drawn & Published by David H. Burr.
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
12 x 10.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
71949
North America Map By David Hugh Burr
North America
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
11 x 13 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
72226
Africa Map By David Hugh Burr
Africa
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
12.5 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
72668
Georgia Map By David Hugh Burr
Georgia
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
10.5 x 12 inches
Condition:
Stock#:
75946
Russia and Russia in Asia Map By David Hugh Burr
Russian Empire
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
14 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
76868
Pennsylvania Map By David Hugh Burr
Pennsylvania By David H. Burr
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
12.5 x 10.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
79146
North Carolina and South Carolina Map By David Hugh Burr
North and South Carolina
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
12.5 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
89689
New Jersey Map By David Hugh Burr
New-Jersey
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
10.5 x 13 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
92199
Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa Map By David Hugh Burr
Map of Illinois with parts of Indiana, Ouisconsin &c. By David H. Burr, Draughtsman to the House of Reps. U.S. 1836 (with significant early Iowa settlements)
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
Washington / 1836
Size:
13 x 18 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
93321
Asia Map By David Hugh Burr
Asia
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
12.5 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
96389
Balkans, Turkey, Balearic Islands and Greece Map By David Hugh Burr
Greece
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1835
Size:
12 x 10.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
70868
United States and Wisconsin Map By David Hugh Burr
United States. By David Burr
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1835
Size:
12.5 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
71862
Arkansas Map By David Hugh Burr
Arkansas
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1835
Size:
12.5 x 10.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
96149
Alabama Map By David Hugh Burr
Map of the State of Alabama. By David Burr
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1834
Size:
11 x 13 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
70366
Georgia Map By David Hugh Burr
Georgia
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1834
Size:
10.5 x 12 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
71259
Southeast Asia, Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia Map By David Hugh Burr
East India Isles
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1834
Size:
12.5 x 10.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
71505
Louisiana Map By David Hugh Burr
Louisiana
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
Brattleboro, Vermont / 1834
Size:
13 x 11 inches
Condition:
Good
Stock#:
96146
Idaho, Pacific Northwest, Oregon and Washington Map By David Hugh Burr
Oregon Territory
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1833
Size:
12.5 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
70254
Holy Land Map By David Hugh Burr
Palestine or the Holy Land or the Land of Canaan
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1832
Size:
10.5 x 13 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
87005
Vermont and New York State Map By David Hugh Burr
[Lake Champlain] Map of the County of Clinton By David H. Burr
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1829 circa
Size:
17 x 18 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
80723

Archived

New York City Map By David Hugh Burr
Map of the City of New-York, Drawn by D. H. Burr, for New York as it is in 1856. Population 520,000. Published by C.S. Francis & Co. 252 Broadway
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1856
Size:
17 x 24 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
65864
United States Map By David Hugh Burr
Map of the United States Exhibiting the Several Collection Districts Drawn by David H. Burr Draftsman to U.S. Senate
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1854
Size:
49 x 31.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
21268
New York City Map By David Hugh Burr
Map of the City of New-York, Drawn by D. H. Burr, for New York as it is in 1846. Population 371,233.
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1846
Size:
10.5 x 12.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
47533
Map By David Hugh Burr
Map of the City of New York, Drawn by D.H. Burr . . . 1846
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1846
Size:
23 x 16 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
33768
New York City Map By David Hugh Burr
Map of the City of New-York, Drawn by D. H. Burr, for New York as it is in 1846. Population 371,233.
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1846
Size:
21 x 17 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
47582
Texas Map By David Hugh Burr
New Map of the State of Texas 1845
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1845
Size:
21 x 17.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
29357sr
United States Map By David Hugh Burr / B. Davenport
United States. By David H. Burr
David Hugh Burr / B. Davenport
Place/Date:
New York / 1842
Size:
22 x 18 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
2347
United States Map By David Hugh Burr
Map of the United States of North America, By David H. Burr, Geographer to the House of Representatives of the United States
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1842
Size:
64 x 62 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
23580
United States Map By David Hugh Burr
Map of the United States of North America, By David H. Burr, Geographer to the House of Representatives of the United States
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1842
Size:
64 x 62 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
26945
North America Map By David Hugh Burr
North America
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1840 circa
Size:
14 x 10.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
28785
New England and Maine Map By David Hugh Burr
Map of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. Exhibiting the Post Offices, Post Roads, Canals, Rail Roads &c by David H. Burr (Late Topographer to the Post Office.) Geographer to the House of Representatives of the U.S.
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1839
Size:
50 x 36.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
44795
Title Pages Map By David Hugh Burr
[Title Page] A New Universal Atlas, Comprising Separate Maps Of all the Principal Empires, Kingdoms & States Throughout The World and Forming a Distinct Atlas of the United States. . . .
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1838 circa
Size:
15 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
21989
South, Midwest and Plains Map By David Hugh Burr
Map illustrating the plan of the defences of the Western Frontier, as proposed by Maj. Gen. Gaines, in his plan of Feby. 28th 1838.
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
Washington / 1838
Size:
23.5 x 14.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
34469gm
Europe and British Isles Map By David Hugh Burr
British Islands
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
12 x 10.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
11174
Midwest Map By U.S. Government / David Hugh Burr
A Map Exhibiting the relative positions of Lake Erie & Michigan ... [with] A Map Exhibiting the relative positions of Lake Erie & Michigan According to Mitchell's Map . . .
U.S. Government / David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
Washington / 1836
Size:
13.5 x 6.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
11265
Midwest Map By David Hugh Burr
Michigan. Drawn & Published by David H. Burr.
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
13 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
1821
South Map By David Hugh Burr
Map of the State of Alabama
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
11 x 12.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
2592
Midwest Map By David Hugh Burr
Indiana By David H. Burr
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
13 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
m0108
Midwest and Plains Map By David Hugh Burr
Missouri
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
13 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
m0081
Canada Map By David Hugh Burr
Oregon Territory
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
13 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
m0092
Midwest Map By David Hugh Burr
Map of the Northern parts of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois with Michigan and that part to the Ouisconsin Territory Lying East of the Mississippi River … 1836
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
Washington / 1836
Size:
15 x 13 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
m0097
Midwest Map By David Hugh Burr
Illinois By David H. Burr
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
13 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
m0145
Midwest Map By David Hugh Burr
Michigan. Drawn & Published by David H. Burr.
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
13 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
m0154
New York State Map By David Hugh Burr
New-York. Drawn & Published by David H. Burr.
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
13 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
m0177
Map By David Hugh Burr
Map of the Country Twenty Five Miles Round The City of New-York
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
12 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
m0180
Midwest and Plains Map By David Hugh Burr
Missouri
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
13 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
m0652
Midwest Map By David Hugh Burr
Map of the Territory of Wisconsin. By David Burr . . . 1836
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
26.5 x 21 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
20746
Midwest Map By David Hugh Burr
Map of the Northern parts of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois with Michigan and that part to the Ouisconsin Territory Lying East of the Mississippi River . . . 1836
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
Washington / 1836
Size:
15 x 13 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
29026
Midwest Map By David Hugh Burr
Map of the Territory of Wisconsin. By David Burr . . . 1836
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
26.5 x 21 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
29839
Midwest Map By David Hugh Burr
(1st Map Wisconsin) Map of the Territory of Wisconsin. By David Burr . . . 1836
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
26.5 x 21 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
41787
Midwest, Illinois and Plains Map By David Hugh Burr
Map of Illinois with parts of Indiana, Ouisconsin &c. By David H. Burr, Draughtsman to the House of Reps. U.S. 1836 (with significant early Iowa settlements)
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
Washington / 1836
Size:
18 x 13 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
0017bm
Midwest Map By David Hugh Burr
Illinois By David H. Burr
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
13 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
0043bm
Midwest Map By U.S. Government / David Hugh Burr
A Map Exhibiting the relative positions of Lake Erie & Michigan ... [with] A Map Exhibiting the relative positions of Lake Erie & Michigan According to Mitchell's Map . . .
U.S. Government / David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
Washington / 1836
Size:
13.5 x 6.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
0065bm
Midwest, Illinois and Plains Map By David Hugh Burr
Map of Illinois with parts of Indiana, Ouisconsin &c. By David H. Burr, Draughtsman to the House of Reps. U.S. 1836 (with significant early Iowa settlements)
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
Washington / 1836
Size:
18 x 13 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
45462
Midwest, Plains and Missouri Map By David Hugh Burr
Missouri
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
13 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
46315
South and Arkansas Map By David Hugh Burr
Arkansas
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
13 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
46421
Southeast Map By David Hugh Burr
North and South Carolina
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
13 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
46513
United States Map By David Hugh Burr
United States. By David Burr
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
13 x 10.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
46471
Midwest and Indiana Map By David Hugh Burr
Indiana By David H. Burr
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
13 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
46481
Midwest and Illinois Map By David Hugh Burr
Illinois By David H. Burr
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
13 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
46811
Texas, Southwest and California Map By David Hugh Burr
The United States of Mexico (Republic of Texas)
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
12.5 x 10.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
46907
Maine Map By David Hugh Burr
Maine [showing disputed boundaries as claimed by US, New Brunswick and as settled by the King of the Netherlands]
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
13 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
46944
Russia and Russia in Asia Map By David Hugh Burr
Russian Empire
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
13 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
47164
Scotland Map By David Hugh Burr
Scotland
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
12.5 x 10.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
47187
Southeast Map By David Hugh Burr
Delaware and Mary-Land
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
13 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
47275
Africa and Africa Map By David Hugh Burr
Africa
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
12.5 x 10.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
47404
South Map By David Hugh Burr
Louisiana
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
Brattleboro VT / 1836
Size:
14 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
47428
Australia and New Zealand Map By David Hugh Burr
New Holland and New Zealand
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
13 x 10.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
47525
North America Map By David Hugh Burr
North America
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
14 x 10.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
47659
South, Kentucky and Tennessee Map By David Hugh Burr
Kentucky and Tennessee
David Hugh Burr
Place/Date:
New York / 1836
Size:
12 x 10 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
47657