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Rare Full Original Color Example!
First edition of Bradford's rare early map of Texas, colored by land grants, with text giving an early history of the Republic of Texas.
The text leafs which accompanies this issue of the map is noteworthy. Here the writer commences: "Texas. It is a northeastern province of the republic of Mexico, and is at present engaged in an arduous struggle for independence." This introduction is followed by a discussion of Texas resources, geography, living conditions, Anglo colonization, dissension with Mexico, and events leading to the Texas Revolution.
The text includes a brief Chronological section of the history of Texas, ending with Texas Independence and the Battle of San Jacinto.
This is the second full color example of the map we have handled in the past 25 years.
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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