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BRADFORD, Thomas Gamaliel (1802–1887). An Illustrated Atlas, Geographical, Statistical and Historical of the United States and the Adjacent Countries. Boston and New York: Weeks, Jordan, and Company; Wiley and Putnam, [1838]. Large folio (495 x 400 mm). Hand–colored additional title engraved by James Archer, 39 hand–colored copper engraved maps including several city plans and a double–page map of the United States by G.W. Boynton and others (several expert marginal repairs to titles and few maps, few sheets with penciling verso, some marginal staining or soiling). Modern half niger antique, crushed red niger cover label lettered in gilt, raised bands, gilt lettering and fillets in compartments, marbled endpapers. FIRST LARGE EDITION of “one of the first American general atlases to supplement the maps with lengthy geographical descriptions” (Ristow), with detailed maps of the 28 states INCLUDING AN EXCELLENT EARLY MAP OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS. “Bradford published a completely new atlas in 1838, in a larger format, and the map of Texas it contained was even more clearly patterned on [Stephen Fuller] Austin’s [Map of Texas, published in Philadelphia in 1830].” It was one of the first maps of Texas as a Republic to appear in an atlas, showing the large region around Austin “Austin’s Colony”. This atlas was printed in two sizes with the same maps but with the larger version having wider margins. Bradford published this larger and finer atlas as compared to his earlier Comprehensive Atlas that Ristow called undistinguished. Includes ONE OF THE EARLIEST PUBLISHED MAPS OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN (statehood 1837) showing an inset map of the Upper Peninsula (“Northwest Part of Michigan”), numerous counties newly named and delineated but with the northern portion of the state still called “Michilimackinac” and controlled by Chippewa and Ottawa. Also contains a scarce and early map of the Iowa Territory, making it one of the earliest depictions of this territory in a commercial atlas and the largely unsettled Wisconsin with only 18 counties named with a large inset, based on Nicollet, detailing the lands of the Dahcota or Sioux, Chippeways, Fox, Iowa, and Saulk Indians. Howes B–701; Martin & Martin p. 125; Phillips Atlases 1381; Ristow, p. 271; Sabin 7261.