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Scarce 1841 edition Thomas Bradford's map of Florida Territory.
The newly formed Dade County (1836) is shown in the south, as are Monroe County and Mosquito County. The Everglades are named, along with more than 20 early forts.
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--the first time we have ever seen the map in outline color.
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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