- Title: New York
- Author: Thomas Bradford
- Date: 1838
- Medium: Hand-colored engraving
- Condition: Very Good Plus - light age toning, foxing
- Inches: 16 x 13 [Paper]
- Centimeters: 40.64 x 33.02 [Paper]
- Product ID: 319081
Map of the state of New York by Thomas Bradford. Shows Lake Ontario and part of Lake Erie, as well as Canada, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Vermont
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.