"Florida", Bradford, Thomas Gamaliel

A beautiful example of this map which details Florida several years prior to attaining Statehood. It is a clean and precise engraved style with delicate original hand coloring used to outline the counties. The exact number of counties named is unclear. We count twelve, but this period should name fifteen. Columbia county was created from a portion of Alachua, whose name still stretches across the new county. The large non-county area at the middle of the peninsula is Indian lands which in 1834 provided most of the land for the new Hillsborough County.

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Condition: A+

Full margins, strong paper, nice impression. A lovely example.