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Pub Year	Map Maker	Pub Place	Map Title	Map Price (USD)	Picture
1838	Bradford, Thomas Gamaliel	Boston	United States	$1,250	Picture

An engraved map, with hand colored wash

Size: 13.3 inches X 22 inches

Map Type: Atlas

This is an excellent copy, with vivid colors. Some general age toning throughout.

T.G. Bradford served as an assistant editor of the America Encyclopedia before entering the field of atlas publishing with his first work published in 1835. G.W. Boynton, the engraver of this map, operated an engraving shop in Boston between 1830 and 1845. This map is from the 1st edition of An Illustrated Atlas….considered by most to be Bradford's best atlas, far superior to the smaller and more crudely drawn 1835 Comprehensive Atlas.

The United States is pictured in the decade before its great expansion into the Southwest and California. There are few settlements shown west of Missouri. Texas is named but still considered part of Mexico. This maps has one of the most comprehensive identifications of the ranges of American Indian tribes.

References: A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress, 1381, Phillips, P.L, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1909; American Maps and Mapmakers, p270-271, Ristow, George, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1985