- Title: Massachusetts
- Author: Thomas Bradford
- Date: 1836
- Medium: Hand-colored engraving
- Condition: Very Good Plus - light age toning and foxing
- Inches: 11 3/8 x 9 [Paper]
- Centimeters: 28.89 x 22.86 [Paper]
- Product ID: 318071
Map of Massachusetts including Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, Cape Cod, and parts of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, and New Hampshire. 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 the Americas and abandoned the classical decoration common in European atlases in favor of a more informational and inherently American approach. Afterwards, Bradford revised and expanded this work into his own important contribution to American cartography, the 1838 An Illustrated Atlas Geographical, Statistical and Historical of the United States and Adjacent Countries.