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Decorative map of Maine from Finley's New General Atlas.
The map is hand colored by county, showing towns, roads, railroads, lakes, rivers, mountains, etc.
One of the best maps of the state during the period.
Anthony Finley was the dominant map maker in the United States from the early 1820s through 1831. His Atlas was a huge success, far outselling rival atlases by Carey & Lea and Tanner. Its elegant engraving style, high quality paper and topographical detail made it the best regularly published atlas, with maps corrected and updated as often as yearly during the run.
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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