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Nice example of the first edition of Bradford's large map of the Republic of Texas, first published in 1838.
In 1835, Bradford issued a small map of the Texas shortly before it became a Republic. In 1838, Bradford issued his Illustrated Atlas, a much larger and more lavish production, which included the present map. It includes all of the empresario land grants and colonies, as well as the early county configurations.
Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1802-1887) was an American geographic publisher. He hailed from Bradford, Massachusetts and began his publishing career by working for the America Encyclopedia. Then, he edited and republished the Atlas Designed to Illustrate the Abridgement of Universal Geography, Modern & Ancient, which had originally been offered in French by Adrian Balbi. In 1835, he published another atlas, A Comprehensive Atlas: Geographical, Historical & Commercial, and, in 1838, An Illustrated Atlas Geographical, Statistical and Historical of the United States and Adjacent Countries. His interests were primarily in educational publishing and he was one of the first mapmakers to show Texas as an independent country.
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