Arkansas: Bradford, 1838

Title: Arkansas Author: Thomas G. Bradford Date: 1838 Medium: Hand-colored lithograph Condition: Excellent - holes from original stab binding, very minor foxing  Inches: 14 1/8 x 11 3/8 [Image] Centimeters: 35.87 x 28.89 [Image] Product ID: 308112 This map of Arkansas is from Bradford’s Illustrated Atlas Geographical, Statistical and Historical, 1838. Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1802-1887) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, where he worked as an assistant editor for the America Encyclopedia before entering the field of atlas publishing. Bradford focused his atlases on the United States and dispensed with the ornamental decoration common in European atlases in favor of a more informational approach, perhaps inspired by the efforts of the S.D.U.K.   Bradford's first major cartographic work was his revision and subsequent republication of an important French geography by Adrian Balbi, published in America as Atlas Designed to Illustrate the Abridgement of Universal Geography