1884 Bradley Map of Montana, Wyoming and Idaho
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Description: This is the rare 1884 Bradley / Mitchell map of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. Covers the territories of Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho in considerable detail with color coding according to counties. Shows American Indian lands, geological formations, forts, cities, maintain passes and river ways. Also notes the progress of the U.S. Land Survey in this region in the form of grids in the surveyed portions of each territory. Includes Yellowstone National Park which was created in 1871. Published by William M. Bradley for inclusion as plates no. 86 and 87 in the 1884 edition of S. A. Mitchell’s New General Atlas.
Date: 1884 (dated)
Source: Mitchell Jr., S. A., Mitchell's new general atlas, containing maps of the various countries of the World, plans of cities, etc. Embraced in ninety-three quarto maps. Forming a series of one hundred and forty-seven maps and plans., 1884 edition.
References: Rumsey 0594.042. Phillips (atlases) 983 (1893 edition).
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Cartographer: Samuel Augustus Mitchell Senior began his map publishing career in the early 1830s. Having worked as a school teacher, Mitchell was frustrated with the low quality and inaccuracy of school texts of the period. His first maps were an attempt to rectify this problem. In the next 20 years Mitchell would become the most prominent American map publisher of the mid-19th century. Mitchell worked with prominent engravers H. S. Tanner and H. N. Burroughs before attaining the full copyright on his maps in 1847. In 1849 Mitchell teamed up with printer Cowperthwait & Company to produce the Mitchell's Universal Atlas and the Mitchell's General Atlas. In the late 1850s most of the Mitchell copyrights were bought by Desilver and Co. who continued to publish his maps, many with modified borders and color schemes, until Mitchell's son, Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr, entered the picture. S.A. Mitchell Jr. purchased most of the copyrights back from Desilver and, from 1860 on, published his own New General Atlas. The younger Mitchell became as prominent as his father and published atlases well into the late 1880s when most of the copyrights were again sold and the Mitchell firm closed its doors for the final time. Click here for a list of rare maps from Samuel Augustus Mitchell.
Size: Printed area measures 22 x 15 inches (55.88 x 38.1 centimeters)
Condition: Very good condition. Text on verso. Original centerfold.
Code: MTWYID-bradley-1884 (Necessary for phone inquiries: 646-320-8650)
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