Historic Map : Burr Map of Missouri, 1834, Vintage Wall Art

This is an unusual 1834 first edition map of Missouri by David H. Burr. It depicts the very early county configuration with most of the population attached to the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. The western portion of the state is defined by large counties and is largely uninhabited while the northern and southern portion of the state does not note any counties at all.

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 1834 by Thomas Illman in the Clerk's office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York', but was not published until the atlas was released in 1835. Published by D. S. Stone in Burr's New Universal Atlas.