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An excellent example of this first edition of Bradford's map of Florida colored by county.
Dade County appears for the first time on this map while Mosquito County remains quite large. The southern third of the state is marked unexplored and there are very few settlements on the peninsula. Only a hand full of counties in the south, including Dade, Monroe, Hillsboro and Mosquito. Miranda's Grant is shown and colored in Green, along w/Fort Foster and Fort Brooks. A number of Battle Sites are shown in northern Mosquito County. Arrredondo's Grant is shown in the middle of Alachua County, along with a number of neighboring forts, old towns and similar land marks. Fascinating throughout.
A nice example of the scarce first state of Bradford's map.
Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1802-1887) was an American geographic publisher. He hailed from Bradford, Massachusetts and began his publishing career by working for the America Encyclopedia. Then, he edited and republished the Atlas Designed to Illustrate the Abridgement of Universal Geography, Modern & Ancient, which had originally been offered in French by Adrian Balbi. In 1835, he published another atlas, A Comprehensive Atlas: Geographical, Historical & Commercial, and, in 1838, An Illustrated Atlas Geographical, Statistical and Historical of the United States and Adjacent Countries. His interests were primarily in educational publishing and he was one of the first mapmakers to show Texas as an independent country.
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