1865 "Johnson's Map of New York and the Adjacent Cities" by Johnson and Ward

Presented is an original 1865 "Johnson's Map of New York and the Adjacent Cities" map. This map was issued as page 29 and 30 in the 1865 edition of “Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas.” The map is engraved, with attractive hand coloring by county and a decorative strapwork. The map is beautifully detailed, with ferry lanes, streets, avenues, squares, batteries, and of course, Central Park, labeled. It shows Jersey City, the Hudson or North River, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Governor's Island, the East River, Blackwell's Island, Brooklyn, and Queens. The map has an inset map at bottom right, “Continuation of the City  & County of New York on a Reduced Scale.” This 1865 Johnson and Ward publication of “Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas” was written by Richard Swainson Fisher, M.D. Fisher was also the author of "Colton's General Atlas of the World," "The Gazetteer of the United States," and a past editor of the Journal of American Geographical and