Upper Canada: Bradford 1838

Upper Canada: Bradford 1838

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Title: Upper Canada Author: Thomas Bradford Date: 1838 Medium: Hand-colored engraving Condition: Very Good Inches: 11 1/4" x 14 1/4" Centimeters: 28.86 x 36.54 Product ID: 001732 This map of Upper Canada 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 Designed to Illustrate the Abridgement of Universal Geography, Modern & Ancient, Boston, 1835.  The atlas is extremely scarce, w

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