1839 Bradford Map of New York City, New York
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Description: This is Thomas Bradford's important 1839 map of New York City. Bradford's plan covers Manhattan from fifty-third street to the Battery, with parts of adjacent Brooklyn, Hoboken, and Jersey City. The whole is beautifully engraved in Boynton's delicate style, with important buildings, parks, streets, rail lines, and piers noted. Predates the landfills along the East River and on the Jersey side of the Hudson - though these are in fact ghosted in. Identifies Fort Green, the Navy yard in Brooklyn, Fort Columbus on Governor's Island, Fort Gibson on Ellis Island, City Hall, Bellevue Hospital, the Public Cemetery, the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Tompkins Square Park, Washington Square, Castle Garden, and the Battery, among others. The Harlem Railroad appears in its original configuration extending along Fourth Avenue and then the Bowery to City Hall Park. Fine color work defines city wards of which there are but 17. This map became the prototype for a number of other important later maps of New York City by Tanner, Mitchell, and others. Engraved as plant no. 18 for the 1839 issue of Bradford's Illustrated Atlas.
Date: 1839 (undated)
Source: Bradford, T., An Illustrated Atlas, Geographical, Statistical, And Historical, Of The United States And The Adjacent Countries, 1839.
References: Haskel, D. C., Manhattan Maps, A Co-operative List, 825. 826. 827. Rumsey 0089.001 . Phillps (atlases) 1381.
Cartographer: Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1802-1887) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, where he worked as an assistant editor for the America Encyclopedia. Bradford's first major cartographic work was his revision and subsequent republishing of an important French geography by Adrian Balbi, published in America as Atlas Designed to Illustrate the Abridgement of Universal Geography, Modern & Ancient. Afterwards Bradford revised and expanded this work into his own important contributions to American cartography, the 1838 "An Illustrated Atlas Geographical, Statistical and Historical of the United States and Adjacent Countries. In his long career as a map publisher Bradford worked with Ticknor of Boston, Freeman Hunt & Company of New York, De Silver of Philadelphia, Hinton, Boynton, and others. Click here for a list of rare maps from Thomas Gamaliel Bradford.
Size: Printed area measures 12 x 14.5 inches (30.48 x 36.83 centimeters)
Condition: Very good. Minor spot top center. Blank on verso. Else very clean.
Code: NewYorkCity-bradford-1839 (Necessary for phone inquiries: 646-320-8650)
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