BRADFORD THOMAS GAMALIEL; and [BALBI ADRIAN] Atlas designed

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BRADFORD, THOMAS GAMALIEL; and [BALBI, ADRIAN]. Atlas designed to Illustrate the Abridgement of Universal Geography, Modern & Ancient [cover title]. 32 mapsheets; hand-colored in outline. 285x240 mm, publisher's leather-backed pictorial wrappers, spine perished, cover loose and chipped at edges; some browning and foxing to the maps. Boston: William D. Ticknor, 1835

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Each map has a pink colored border. No title page, listing of maps or end-papers as issued. Ristow claims that this is Bradford's first work in the atlas publication field. The maps here are the same as in Bradford's Comprehensive Atlas, except for the coloring of the map borders which are light green in the latter. "Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1802-87) of Boston served as an assistant editor of the America Encyclopedia before entering the field of atlas publishing. His first effort, published in 1835 and titled Atlas Designed to Illustrate the Abridgement of Universal Geography, Modern & Ancient, is a condensed version of a French work by Adrian Balbi"--Ristow, page 270. Only two copies of this atlas were located at institutions - Harvard and University of Chicago - and it is not found in the Baskes or Rumsey collections. However, the copy at Harvard has a different publisher's imprint - Boston: Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1835.