Michigan and the Great Lakes: Bradford c. 1835

Title: Michigan and the Great Lakes Author: Thomas Bradford Date: c. 1835 Medium: Hand-colored engraving Condition: Very Good - age toning, foxing Inches: 11 3/8 x 9 [Paper] Centimeters: 28.89 x 22.86 [Paper] Product ID: 318068 Map of the Great Lakes at the border of the United States and Canada. Features the Territory of Michigan, Upper Canada, Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Ontario, and Erie, Green and Georgian Bays, and parts of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Longitude from the Washington and London Meridians. Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1802-1887) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, where he worked as an assistant editor for the America Encyclopedia. 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, Modern & Ancient. Among other things, Bradford focused his atlas on t