Sold by Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
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AbeBooks Seller since November 21, 2024
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Very good. Even overall toning. Verso repair to margin centerfold separation. Blank on verso. Size 12 x 15.5 Inches. This is an 1846 Thomas G. Bradford map of Tennessee. Coverage embraces Tennessee in full, with significant parts of adjacent Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. Proposed Railroads The map features two early railroad connections: a line between Asheville, North Carolina, and Knoxville, and another between Memphis and la Grange / Sommerville. Both were unrealized. The first, Asheville-Knoxville, was proposed in 1832 to connect Asheville with the Tennessee River, but due to the rigorous mountain terrain, construction was halting at best and ended entirely during the American Civil War (1861 - 1865). The second, Memphis-LaGrange, was a proposed 40-mile route conceived as part of efforts to enhance regional connectivity and promote trade in the fertile agricultural regions of West Tennessee. Construction was never able to gain momentum, and its practical value was ultimately sidelined by the completion of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. Publication History and Census The 1838 copyright on this map corresponds to the first edition - as Bradford did not invest in new copyright registrations despite numerous annual content updates. A note under the bottom border identifies this map as being corrected to 1846. It was engraved by George Washington Boynton and published as plate number 32 in the 1846 large format edition of Bradford and Goodrich's A Universal Illustrated Atlas . Scarce to the market. References: Rumsey 0089.028 (1838 edition).
Seller Inventory # Tennessee-bradford-1846-2
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