The World, as Known to the Ancients: Bradford c. 1835

Title: The World, as Known to the Ancients Author: Thomas Bradford Date: c. 1835 Medium: Hand-colored engraving Condition: Very Good Plus - light age toning and foxing Inches: 11 3/8 x 9 [Paper] Centimeters: 28.89 x 22.86 [Paper] Product ID: 318075 This Map contains all the Parts of which it is thought the Ancients had any knowledge. Map of Europe, Africa, and Asia showing the known world during the time of Antiquity. Scales given in Roman Miles, Persian Parasangae, Greek Stadia, and British Miles. 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 republication of an important French geography by Adrian Balbi, published in America as Atlas Designed to Illustrate the Abridgement of Universal Geography, Modern & Ancient. Among other things, Bradford focused his atlas on the Americas and abandoned the classical