Lower Canada and New Brunswick: Bradford, 1838

Title: Lower Canada and New Brunswick Author: Thomas G. Bradford Date: 1838 Medium: Hand-colored lithograph Condition: Very good - holes from original stab binding, some occasional light foxing Inches: 14 1/8 x 11 3/8 [Image] Centimeters: 35.87 x 28.89 [Image] Product ID: 308102 This map of Lower Canada and New Brunswick 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 Designe