MAP #: 335B5
CARTOGRAPHER : BRADFORD, THOMAS GAMALIEL
DATE: 1835
SHORT TITLE : VIRGINIA, MARYLAND AND DELAWARE.
REMAINING TITLE & ID : (TOP LEFT CORNER, NO CARTOUCHE). SCALE (BELOW TITLE). "EXPLANATION." OF SYMBOLS (UNDER SCALE). "36" (EAST SIDE OF MAP IN BORDER FACING RIGHT, WHICH WAS BOUND AS THE BOTTOM MARGIN IN THE ATLAS). MAP EXTENDS THROUGH THE RIGHT AND LEFT NEAT LINES. THE CHESAPEAKE BAY IS SHOWN BY HORIZONTAL PARALLEL LINES. LONGITUDE FROM WASHINGTON (TOP BORDER) AND FROM LONDON (BOTTOM BORDER). LATITUDE (RIGHT AND LEFT BORDERS).
RISTOW WRITES AS FOLLOWS: "THOMAS GAMALIEL BRADFORD (1802-87) OF BOSTON SERVED AS AN ASSISTANT EDITOR OF THE AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA BEFORE ENTERING THE FIELD OF ATLAS PUBLISHING. HIS FIRST EFFORT, PUBLISHED IN 1835 AND TITLED ATLAS DESIGNED TO ILLUSTRATE... IS A CONDENSED VERSION OF A FRENCH WORK BY ADRIAN BALBI. BRADFORD'S ATLAS IS A SMALL AND RATHER UNDISTINGUISHED VOLUME WITH THIRTY MAPS AND FOUR PAGES OF COMPARATIVE TABLES AND STATISTICAL CHARTS. NONE OF THE MAPS CARRIES AN ENGRAVER'S CREDIT. HALF ARE OF NORTH AMERICA AND THE UNITED STATES AND THE REMAINDER SHOW THE WORLD AND VARIOUS FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
DATA IS FROM PHILLIPS ATLASES AND KARPINSKI.
EDITION & STATE INFO : ONLY A SINGLE EDITION IS KNOWN TO THE WRITER. BOTH COPIES IN THE HUNTINGFIELD COLLECTION HAVE PAGE "36" ON THE EAST MARGIN, INDICATING THAT THEY ARE FROM THE AMERICAN STATIONERS' COMPANY PUBLISHED ATLAS. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THIS PAGE NUMBER IS DIFFERENT IN SOME OF THE OTHER PUBLICATIONS, ALTHOUGH WRITER HAS NOT YET SEEN SUCH VARIANTS.
DATA IS FROM PHILLIPS MAPS.
HFC OWNERSHIP DATA : THE HUNTINGFIELD COLLECTION HAS TWO COPIES OF THIS MAP AS DESCRIBED. ONE IS IN FULL COLOR AND ONE IS IN OUTLINE COLOR, WITH THE COUNTIES AND STATE LINES COLORED. BOTH COPIES HAVE AN ACQ. # OF BB023-2N. THEY HAVE MDHR #s, RESPECTIVELY OF MSA SC1399-174 AND 173.
BIBLIGRAPHICAL REFS. : PHILLIPS, PHILIP LEE, A LIST OF MAPS OF AMERICA IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, NEW YORK: BURT FRANKLIN, UNDATED REPRINT OF A 1901 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PUBLICATION, 987; PHILLIPS, PHILIP LEE, A LIST OF GEOGRAPHICAL ATLASES IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, AMSTERDAM: THEATRVM ORBIS TERRARVM, LTD., I, 457. # 769, MAP # 7; 458, # 770, MAP # 7; KARPINSKI, LOUIS C., MAPS OF FAMOUS CARTOGRAPHERS DEPICTING NORTH AMERICA, AMSTERDAM: MERIDIAN PUBLISHING CO., A 1977 REPRINT OF BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PRINTED MAPS OF MICHIGAN 1804- 1880 , ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1931, 256 (SEE NOTE ON MAP # 131); RISTOW, WALTER W., AMERICAN MAPS AND MAPMAKERS COMMERCIAL CARTOGRAPHY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, DETROIT: WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1985, 270-271.
August 26, 1991
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