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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).

DATE OF PUBLICATION : S1835
PLACE OF PUBLICATION : BOSTON
PUBLISHER : AMERICAN STATIONERS COMPANY
LANGUAGE(S) : EN
SIZE (HEIGHT X WIDTH) : 19.8 X 25.8 CM. (MSA SC1399- 174)
SIZE - OTHER DATA : 25.4 X 32.4 CM. OM (MSA SC1399- 174)
SCALE - (RF) 1: : 3,270,000
SCALE - OTHER DATA : 1 15/16 INCHES = 100 MILES
LIB. OF CONGRESS # : -
Md. HALL OF RECORDS # 1 : MSA SC1399-174
# 2 : MSA SC1399-173
HUNTINGFIELD ACQ. # 1 : BB023-2N
# 2 : BB023-2N
REGION CATEGORY : GENERAL MAP OF SOME SIGNIFICANCE TO A MD/CHESAPEAKE COLLECTION (3)
SPECIAL CATEGORY(IES) : VIRGINIA MAP PRIMARILY (13)
: SCHOOL ATLAS MAP (7)
# SHEETS TO MAP : 1
MAP ORIENTATION : N IS AT THE TOP OF THE MAP
RELIEF SHOWN ? : YES
HYDROGRAPHIC DATA : NONE.
CARTOUCHE : NONE (1)
BORDER : GEOGRAPHICALLY FUNCTIONAL (8)
PRIME MERIDIAN(S) : WASHINGTON AND LONDON (8)
SEE ALSO MAP #s : -
BEST INFO SOURCE : RISTOW, KARPINSKI, AND PHILLIPS ATLASES AND MAPS ARE THE BEST FOUND.
DESCRIPTION : THIS SMALL SCALE MAP SHOWS THE THREE STATES DIVIDED INTO COUNTIES. IT SHOWS CANALS AND FINISHED, CHARTERED AND PROPOSED RAILROADS. THIS MAP APPEARED IN SEVERAL PUBLICATIONS IN 1835. ONE WAS A COMPREHENSIVE ATLAS GEOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL & COMMERCIAL, 4o, BOSTON: AMERICAN STATIONERS' COMPANY, 1835. ANOTHER COPY OF THIS ATLAS WITH THE MAP WAS PUBLISHED IN BOSTON BY W.D. TICKNOR AND IN NEW YORK BY WILEY & LONG ETC., 1835. THESE ATLASES ALSO CONTAIN A SMALL PLAN OF BALTIMORE. THE MAP ADDITIONALLY APPEARED IN ATLAS DESIGNED TO ILLUSTRATE THE ABRIDGEMENT OF UNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHY, MODERN & ANCIENT. CHIEFLY COMPILED FROM THE ABREGE DE GEOGRAPHIE OF ADRIAN BALBI, 4o, BOSTON: W.D. TICKNOR AND NEW YORK BY FREEMAN HUNT & CO. ETC. 1835 AS MAP # 7 AND IN THE SAME ATLAS BY DE SILVER, THOMAS & CO. OF PHILADELPHIA. KARPINSKI INDICATES THAT A NEW UNIVERSAL ATLAS, BOSTON: EDWARD R. BROADERS, 1835 CONTAINED THE SAME MAPS AS THE FOREGOING BRADFORD ATLASES. HE ALSO NOTES THAT THE MICHIGAN MAP FROM THE BRADFORD ATLASES WAS IN THE AMERICAN POPULAR ATLAS...., NEW YORK: FREEMAN HUNT & CO. 1835. IT IS LIKELY THAT THE VIRGINIA, MARYLAND & DELAWARE MAP WAS ALSO INCLUDED, ALTHOUGH WRITER HAS NOT YET EXAMINED A COPY OF THIS ATLAS.

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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