MAP #: 338B5
CARTOGRAPHER : BRADFORD, THOMAS GAMALIEL
DATE: 1838
SHORT TITLE : MARYLAND
REMAINING TITLE & ID : (BOTTOM LEFT, NO CARTOUCHE). SCALE IN MILES (BELOW TITLE). INSET (UNTITLED) OF WESTERN MARYLAND (CENTER LEFT. INSET MEASURES 9.1 X 13 CM WITH THE SAME SCALE AND LONGITUDE MARKINGS AS MAIN MAP). "ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS IN THE YEAR 1838, BY T.G. BRADFORD, IN THE CLERKS OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS." (LEFT BOTTOM MARGIN). "ENGRAVED BY G.W. BOYNTON." (RIGHT BOTTOM MARGIN). LONGITUDE EAST AND WEST FROM WASHINGTON, D.C. (TOP AND BOTTOM BORDERS). LATITUDE (RIGHT AND LEFT BORDERS).
THE ILLUSTRATED ATLAS... WAS ONE OF THE EARLIEST ATLASES TO CONTAIN FOLIO SIZE MAPS OF BOTH MARYLAND AND BALTIMORE. THE MAPS ARE USUALLY FOUND TINTED IN SOFT PASTEL COLORS.
DATA IS FROM PHILLIPS MAPS, PHILLIPS ATLASES, KARPINSKI AND FROM OBSERVATION OF THE COPY IN THE HUNTINGFIELD COLLECTION.
EDITION & STATE INFO : ONLY ONE EDITION OF THIS MAP IS THOUGHT TO EXIST IN TWO STATES, ALTHOUGH THE SECOND STATE IS CONJECTURAL UNTIL FURTHER RESEARCH HAS BEEN DONE. THE SECOND STATE IS BASED ON A NOTE ON PAGE 259 OF KARPINSKI THAT MAP # 22 ("MICHIGAN") ALSO APPEARED IN A GENERAL ATLAS OF THE WORLD.... EDITED BY S.G. GOODRICH, BOSTON, C.D. STRONG, WITH THE IMPRINT ON THE MAP CHANGED TO "ENTERED....1841 BY C.D. STRONG". IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE OTHER MAPS WERE SIMILARLY ALTERED.
STATE 1 - (1838) - THIS IS THE MAP AS DESCRIBED HEREIN.
STATE 2 - (1841) - THIS STATE, IF IT EXISTS, WOULD HAVE BEEN IN A GENERAL ATLAS OF THE WORLD.... EDITED BY S.G. GOODRICH, BOSTON, C.D. STRONG (A COPY OF WHICH IS IN THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY). IN 1983, WRITER SAW A COPY OF THE BRADFORD MAP DATED BY ARGOSY AS 1841 WITH A PAGE NUMBER "27" IN THE TOP LEFT. THE MAP WAS DATED 1838 IN THE BOTTOM MARGIN AND THE SAME ENGRAVER'S STATEMENT WAS SHOWN.
DATA IS FROM PHILLIPS AND KARPINSKI.
HFC OWNERSHIP DATA : THE HUNTINGFIELD COLLECTION HAS A BEAUTIFUL COLORED COPY WITH WIDE MARGINS OF STATE 1, WITH AN ACQ. # OF BB023-DUF AND A MDHR # OF G1399-176.
BIBLIGRAPHICAL REFS. : SABIN, JOSEPH, A DICTIONARY OF BOOKS RELATING TO AMERICA FROM ITS DISCOVERY TO THE PRESENT TIME, NEW YORK: JOSEPH SABIN, 1868-1936, # 7261; PAPENFUSE, EDWARD C. & COALE, JOSEPH M. III, ATLAS OF HISTORICAL MAPS OF MARYLAND, 1608-1908, BALTIMORE: THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVESITY PRESS, 1982, 70 AND FIG. 77; PHILLIPS, PHILIP LEE, A LIST OF GEOGRAPHICAL ATLASES IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, AMSTERDAM: THEATRVM ORBIS TERRARVM, LTD., 1971 REPRINT OF A 1909 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PUBLICATION, I, # 783, # 1381; 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, 396; HOWES, WRIGHT, U.S.IANA (1650-1950) A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, 2ND ED., NEW YORK: R.R. BOWKER COMPANY FOR THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY, 1962, # 701; TOOLEY, R.V., TOOLEY'S DICTIONARY OF MAPMAKERS, TRING, HERTFORDSHIRE: MAP COLLECTORS' PUBLICATIONS, LTD., 1979, 70; KARPINSKI, LOUIS C., MAPS OF FAMOUS CARTOGRAPHERS DEPICTING NORTH AMERICA, AMSTERDAM: MERIDIAN PUBLISHING CO., 1977 REPRINT OF BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PRINTED MAPS OF MICHIGAN 1804-1880, DATED 1931, 256 (SEE NOTE ON MAP # 131, 259 (SEE NOTE ON MAP # 145).
May 15, 1990
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