Texas: Bradford, 1838

Title: Texas Author: T. G. Bradford Date: 1838 Condition: See description Inches: 16 x 13 [Image] Centimeters: 40.64 x 33.02 [Image] Product ID: 308250 An Influential Early Map of an Independent Republic of Texas, After Stephen F. Austin’s Map A fascinating early glimpse of the Republic of Texas, with various land grants shown in East and Central Texas, and Stephen F. Austin's colony shown in the center of the map due north of San Antonio de Bexar. Showing the young Republic sandwiched between the United States and Mexico, this map is from Bradford’s highly successful but scarcely seen Illustrated Atlas Geographical, Statistical and Historical, published in 1838. There are at least six different versions of the Bradford map; all of them are from the atlases that Bradford published between 1835 and 1840. The earliest of the Texas maps came out in Bradford's 1835 atlas-small-format and with outline coloring. In 1838, Bradford revised his atlas to a larger format. He made t