This is a beautifully hand colored 1864 lithograph map of the Virginia, Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia.  Map shows cities, counties, topographical features, railways, ferries and roads with color coding at the county level.  Due to the events of the American Civil War and the separation of Virginia and West Virginia, Johnson’s map of this region went through numerous different editions from 1861 onwards.  This edition, 1864, is particularly ephemeral and features an engraved view of Fortress Monroe, Virginia.   Published by A. J. Johnson and Ward as plates 33-34 in the 1864 edition of  Johnson’s New Illustrated Family Atlas . This is the first edition of the Johnson’s  Atlas  to bear the Johnson &amp; Ward imprint and the only edition to identify the firm as the “Successors to Johnson and Browning (Successors to J. H. Colton and Company)”.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Alvin_J._Johnson" class="extiw" title="w:en:Alvin J. Johnson"><span title="19th century United-States cartographer">Alvin Jewett Johnson</span></a>
</bdi>
1864 (undated)
This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.geographicus.com/">Geographicus Rare Antique Maps</a>, a specialist dealer in rare maps and other cartography of the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, as part of a <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Geographicus" title="Commons:Geographicus">cooperation project</a>.