(Click the thumb nail to see a larger image)

Pub Year	Map Maker	Pub Place	Map Title	Map Price (USD)	Picture
1795	Carey, Matthew	Philadelphia	The State of New York Compiled from the best Authorities, By Samuel Lewis. 1795	$650	Picture

An engraved map, printed on moderately heavy rag paper.

Size: 19 inches X 23 inches

Map Type: Atlas

General aging coloration throughout with a printers crease in center of image not affecting map lettering or other distinguishing cartography marks.

This map was published in Carey's American Atlas and Carey's General Atlas in 1795 and 1796 respectively, the first atlas ever published in the United States.

Samuel Lewis was a famous American geographer and cartographer in early American mapmaking. He worked for Mathew Carey, a prolific publisher in Philadelphia who had emigrated from Dublin in 1784.

References: A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress, 1213-18, Phillips, P.L, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1909