Map of the Gold Regions of California, Showing the Routes via Chagres and Panama, Cape Horn, &c.
List No
4683.000
Note
This is the thin paper copy with smaller ornamental border and no publisher credit. Wheat believes it was folded into some copies of Farnham's "Life, Adventures, and Travels in California;" our copies of that book have the Haven map pasted in one (see our #3963) and this map pasted in the other (see our #5001). This copy shows signs of being folded. It was probably sold with the book and separately. The text is the same as the broadside issue but the title is in different type. Scarce.
Langley, Henry G.
San Francisco.
1890
Separate Map
Authors
Langley, Henry G.
Full Title
Guide Map Of The City Of San Francisco Compiled From The Official Surveys & Engraved Expressly For Langley's San Francisco Directory 1890. Copyright By Geo. B. Wilbur Receiver Of Painter & Co. 1890. McAfee, Baldwin & Hammond. Real Estate Agents And Auctioneers, 10 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. Lots For Sale In All Parts Of The City ...
List No
5315.001
Note
Ad for G.G. Wickson & Co. on verso. Map is printed in full color.
United States Coast Survey
Entrance to San Francisco Ba
1859
Chart Map
Authors
United States Coast Survey
Full Title
Entrance to San Francisco Bay California. From a Trigonometrical Survey under the direction of A.D. Bache Superintendent of the Survey Of The Coast Of The United States. Triangulation by R.D. Cutts Asst. & A.F. Rodgers Sub-Assts. Hydrography by the Party under the command of Lieut. Comdg. James Alden U.S.N. Asst. 1859. U.S. Coast Survey Office. Verified W.R. Palmer ... No. 36. Redd. Drng. by W.M.C. Fairfax, J. Lambert, & J.J. Ricketts. Engd. by J. Knight, A. Blondeau & G.B. Metzeroth. Electrotype Copy No. 2 by G. Mathiot U.S.C.S. (inset map) Sub-Sketch Of Entrance To San Francisco Bay. 1859.).
List No
1032.000
Note
Light paper chart-full margins, shows plate marks. Map is without color.
Langley, Henry G.
(Advertisement with) Guide M
1890
Separate Map
Authors
Langley, Henry G.
Full Title
(Advertisement with) Guide Map Of The City Of San Francisco Compiled From The Official Surveys & Engraved Expressly For Langley's San Francisco Directory 1890. Copyright By Geo. B. Wilbur Receiver Of Painter & Co. 1890. McAfee, Baldwin & Hammond. Real Estate Agents And Auctioneers, 10 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. Lots For Sale In All Parts Of The City ...
List No
5315A
Note
Ad for G.G. Wickson & Co. on verso. Map is printed in full color.
Jackson, William A.
Cover: Mining District of Ca
1851
Pocket Map
Authors
Jackson, William A.
Full Title
(Covers to) Map Of The Mining District of California by Wm. A. Jackson. Published by Lambert & Lane, 69 Wall St. New York. Entered ... 1851 by Lambert & Lane ... New York. (with 16 page appendix) Appendix To Jackson's Map Of The Mining Districts Of California. ... Second Edition, Revised And Enlarged. New-York: Lambert & Lane, 69 Wall-Street. 1851.
List No
2545A
Jackson, William A.
Mining District of Californi
1851
Pocket Map
Authors
Jackson, William A.
Full Title
Map Of The Mining District of California by Wm. A. Jackson. Published by Lambert & Lane, 69 Wall St. New York. Entered ... 1851 by Lambert & Lane ... New York. (with 16 page appendix) Appendix To Jackson's Map Of The Mining Districts Of California. ... Second Edition, Revised And Enlarged. New-York: Lambert & Lane, 69 Wall-Street. 1851.
List No
2545.001
Note
This is one of the most attractive of the California Gold Rush period maps. Here it is published in pocket map form, with the 16 page "Appendix to Jackson's Map..." which describes the important mining centers. More ornate and detailed than Jackson's map of 1850, this is the only map to label Santa Cruz county "Branciforte." Shows for the first time, some of the mining activity in the south, which Jackson was involved with as an engineer. Map is full color by county, folded into dark green cloth covers 15x10 with "Jackson's Map Of The Mining Districts Of California" stamped in gilt.
Melish, John
Map of the United States wit
1816
Case Map
Authors
Melish, John
Full Title
Map of the United States with the contiguous British & Spanish Possessions Compiled from the latest & best Authorities By John Melish. Engraved by J. Vallance & H.S. Tanner. Entered ... 6th day of June 1816. Published by John Melish Philadelphia. (inset) West Indies.
List No
5168.001
Note
With insets of the West Indies and a Statistical Table. This map has the distinction of being the first large scale detailed map made in the U.S. that showed the entire country from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This copy is an early state of the first edition -this is Martin's third state of the first edition and Ristow's fourth state (Ristow discovered a town and trail added in Ohio - Adelphi - making for a sub state of Martin's third state). The first state was an incomplete proof copy, making this the second/third state of the completed copy. The differences between this and the first complete state are small: Mansfield, Wooster, and Adelphi (and a trail from Adelphi to Athens and Chillicothe) added in Ohio, and "Vevay or" added before "Swiss Vineyards" in southeastern Indiana. Martin and Ristow identify seven states of the 1816 edition. Melish published new editions in 1818 (five states), 1819 (two states), 1820 (eight states), 1822 (two states), and 1823 (one state) for a total of twenty five different issues. Notwithstanding the many issues, the map has become extremely rare. A book accompanied the map (though issued separately) titled "A Geographical Description of the United States..." (see our #2424). Outline color by state or territory. This copy is dissected into 40 sections, backed with linen, and edged in brown cloth. It folds with marbled end sheets into new blue cloth folding boards and slip case 24.5x16.5 with leather label on spine reading "Melish. Map Of The United States. 1816" in gold.
Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1
State Of California.
1857
National Atlas
Authors
Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1804-1871, Rogers, Henry Darwin
Full Title
State Of California. By Prof. H.D. Rogers & A. Keith Johnston, F.R.S.E. Entered in Sta. Hall. London ... & according to an act of Congress ... 1857, by H.D. Rogers ... Massachusetts. London, John Murray, Albemarle Street, Edinburgh, W. & A.K. Johnston. Engraved by W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh.
List No
3825.015
Note
California outlined in pink with counties outlined in blue.
Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1
New Orleans. San Francisco.
1857
National Atlas
Authors
Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1804-1871, Rogers, Henry Darwin
Full Title
New Orleans. San Francisco. London ... & according to an act of Congress ... 1857, by H.D. Rogers ... Massachusetts. London, John Murray, Albemarle Street, Edinburgh, W. & A.K. Johnston. Engraved by W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh.
List No
3825.030
Note
Full color in water sections, cities with no color.
Vincent
Map of the State of Californ
1860
Pocket Map
Authors
Vincent
Full Title
Map Of The State Of California. Compiled from the most recent surveys and explorations Containing all the latest discoveries and newest towns. By Vincent. Printed by Mangeon S. Jacques St. Engraved by Ch. Smith. (inset) San Francisco and its surrounding localities. 1860.
List No
1124.000
Note
Unusual map showing California on its side with north to the left, an inset map and a beautiful view titled "Panorama Of San Francisco and Contra Costa." Full color by county.
Espinosa y Tello, J.
Title Page: Atlas para el Vi
1802
Exploration Book
Authors
Espinosa y Tello, J.
Full Title
(Title Page to) Atlas para el Viage de las Goletas Sutil y Mexicana al reconocimiento del Estrecho de Juan de Fuca en 1792, Publicado en 1802.
List No
4476A
Note
The Spanish "Vancouver." Atlas volume only, first edition. Sometimes attributed to Dionisio Alcala Galiano. The title of the text volume is "Relacion del Viage Hecho por las Goletas Sutil y Mexicana en al ano 1792 para reconocer el estrecho de Fuca..." The last and very important voyage up the Pacific coast to be undertaken by Spain is detailed in the nine maps and eight plates of the atlas. Galiano and Cayetano Valdes led the expedition, arriving in the northwest at the same time as Vancouver. Although the maps were published four years after the Vancouver maps, Wagner considers them in many respects to be superior, and Humboldt used them in his Essai Politique sur le Royaume de la Nouvelle Espagne. Wagner further states: "The general impression today...is that the English discoveries of Vancouver were published four years before those of the Spaniards. This...is a misapprehension... The principal reason, however, why the nomenclature and geography of Vancouver came to occupy the field was that his maps were extensively copied by the famous English cartographer, Aaron Arrowsmith, and later by the English Admiralty."
Espinosa y Tello, J.
Carta Esferica de los Recono
1802
Exploration Book
Authors
Espinosa y Tello, J.
Full Title
Carta Esferica de los Reconocimientos Hechos en la Costa N.O. De America en 1791 y 92 por las Goletas Sutil y Mexicana, y otros Buques de S.M. Cardano lo grabo. Morata lo escribio. Numero 1.
List No
4476.001
Note
Uncolored map stretching from C. Perpetua to Acapulco.
Holdredge, Sterling M.
Illus. Title Page: State, te
1866
Guide Book
Authors
Holdredge, Sterling M.
Full Title
(Illustrated Title Page to) State, Territorial and Ocean Guide Book of the Pacific: Containing The Time and Distance Tables ... on or Connecting with the Pacific Coast and the Interior ... To Which Are Added Nine Large and Reliable Maps Showing Principal Towns, Routes of Communication, etc. San Francisco: Published Semi-Annually by Sterling M. Holdredge. ... 1866.
List No
2544A
Note
Cowen p289. 2nd edition, 1st was 1865. Only two editions are known, 1865 and 1866 (Wheat). Wheat praised these maps and illustrated all nine. With a beautiful chromo litho title page illustrated with a globe showing the western hemisphere. Transportation scenes surround globe, including ships, a riverboat, train, and stagecoach. The nine maps are all double page and full of interesting information. They were lithographed by Grafton T. Brown, the first black lithographer in San Francisco. Rare. Book bound with cloth covers and "Guide Book of the Pacific" on the spine.
Holdredge, Sterling M.
Title Page: State, territori
1866
Guide Book
Authors
Holdredge, Sterling M.
Full Title
(Title Page to) State, Territorial and Ocean Guide Book of the Pacific: Containing The Time and Distance Tables ... on or Connecting with the Pacific Coast and the Interior ... To Which Are Added Nine Large and Reliable Maps Showing Principal Towns, Routes of Communication, etc. San Francisco: Published Semi-Annually by Sterling M. Holdredge. ... 1866.
List No
2544B
Note
Cowen p289. 2nd edition, 1st was 1865. Only two editions are known, 1865 and 1866 (Wheat). Wheat praised these maps and illustrated all nine. With a beautiful chromo litho title page. The nine maps are all double page and full of interesting information. They were lithographed by Grafton T. Brown, the first black lithographer in San Francisco. Rare. Book bound with cloth covers and "Guide Book of the Pacific" on the spine.
Holdredge, Sterling M.
Central California.
1866
Guide Book
Authors
Holdredge, Sterling M.
Full Title
Central California.
List No
2544.001
Note
Map with pink line designating the California/Nevada border. Map centers on the San Francisco Bay area as well as the Gold Regions of the state.
Arrowsmith, Aaron
Cover: Mexico, adjacent prov
1810
Case Map
Authors
Arrowsmith, Aaron
Full Title
(Covers to) A New Map of Mexico and Adjacent Provinces Compiled from Original Documents by A. Arrowsmith. 1810. London. Published 5th October 1810 by A. Arrowsmith, 10 Soho Sque. Hydrographer to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. Engraved by E. Jones. (with) three inset maps: Valley of Mexico, from Mr. Humboldt's Map, Veracruz, and Acapulco.
List No
2035A
Note
All four covers have labels affixed stating: "Ch. Picquet, Geographe ordinaire DU ROI et de S.A.S. Monseign. le Duc d'Orleans. A Paris, Quai de Conti No. 17, entre l'Hotel des Monnaies et le Pont de Arts."
Arrowsmith, Aaron, Humboldt,
Mexico and Adjacent Province
1810
Case Map
Authors
Arrowsmith, Aaron, Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859
Full Title
A New Map of Mexico and Adjacent Provinces Compiled from Original Documents by A. Arrowsmith. 1810. London. Published 5th October 1810 by A. Arrowsmith, 10 Soho Sque. Hydrographer to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. Engraved by E. Jones. (with) three inset maps: Valley of Mexico, from Mr. Humboldt's Map, Veracruz, and Acapulco.
List No
2035.001
Note
Map in outline color.
Newport, California
Cover/Deed: California map s
1868
Separate Map
Authors
Newport, California
Full Title
(Cover and Deed to) California Map Showing San Francisco, Newport. Rail Road Connections With The Adjacent Country. (with: A Deed for lot 37 in Block 392 in the City of Newport to William H. Carr, of Mount Vernon, Kennebec County, State of Maine).
List No
4099A
Note
Large text page includes a 50 cent hand canceled stamp.
Newport, California
California Map Showing San F
1868
Separate Map
Authors
Newport, California
Full Title
California Map Showing San Francisco, Newport. Rail Road Connections With The Adjacent Country. (with: A Deed for lot 37 in Block 392 in the City of Newport to William H. Carr, of Mount Vernon, Kennebec County, State of Maine).
List No
4099.001
Note
Map without color. This side includes the seal of the Commissioner of Deeds.
Britton & Rey
Map of San Francisco.
1852
Separate Map
Authors
Britton & Rey
Full Title
Map of San Francisco, Compiled from latest Surveys & containing all late extensions & Division of Wards. Published By Britton & Rey, San Francisco Cal.
List No
4333.000
Note
Letter sheet map showing the "Lately planket (sic) Streets" and the original shoreline. Streeter estimates the date by comparison with the Butler and Zakreski maps, which are earlier and later, respectively. With a vignette of an untitled building in the lower right corner. This copy was owned by the noted San Francisco collector Dr. Alexander Thomas Leonard, with his signature and notes on the verso of the board the map is mounted on. According to Sally Woodbridge the firm of of Page, Bacon & Co., which owned the building in the lower right corner was at the top of the banking heap in 1852, it was est. in 1849 as a branch of a St. Louis bank. In the financial panic of 1855 it suffered a disastrous run and was ruined along with many other banks.
Johnstone, E. McD.
The Unique Map Of California
1885
Separate Map
Authors
Johnstone, E. McD.
Full Title
The Unique Map Of California. Copyrighted. E. McD. Johnstone. Dickman-Jones Co. Lith. S.F. (with 3 inset maps, 1 profile).
List No
4349.000
Note
The date is estimated from the county formation (San Benito and Del Norte). This is a remarkable map with twenty vignettes of California scenes and three inset maps showing soil, temperature, and areas. Another inset shows the heights of the Sierra Nevada mountains. All these elements combine to make a beautiful map. Little is know about the maker, Johnstone, except that he drew the Climatic Map of California as well (see our #941). Printed in full color.
Bancroft, A.L.
Cover: San Francisco.
1873
Pocket Map
Authors
Bancroft, A.L.
Full Title
(Covers to) Bancroft's Official Guide Map Of City And County Of San Francisco, Compiled From Official Maps In Surveyor's Office. Published by A.L. Bancroft & Co. ... San Francisco, 1873. Entered ... 1873, by A.L. Bancroft & Company ... Washington, D.C. (inset) Skeleton Map Showing the relative position of San Francisco to the Surrounding Country.
List No
0045A
Bancroft, A.L.
Bancroft's Official Guide Ma
1873
Pocket Map
Authors
Bancroft, A.L.
Full Title
Bancroft's Official Guide Map Of City And County Of San Francisco, Compiled From Official Maps In Surveyor's Office. Published by A.L. Bancroft & Co. ... San Francisco, 1873. Entered ... 1873, by A.L. Bancroft & Company ... Washington, D.C. (inset) Skeleton Map Showing the relative position of San Francisco to the Surrounding Country.
List No
0045.001
Note
1st edition 1872. Map is folded into dark brown cloth covers 16x10.5 with "Bancroft's Guide Map Of The City And County Of San Francisco." stamped in gilt.
Bielawski, C., Hoffman, Hoff
The Central Part of the Stat
1865
Pocket Map
Authors
Bielawski, C., Hoffman, Hoffmann, J.D., Poett, A.
Full Title
Topographical And Railroad Map of the Central Part of the State of California, and Part of the State Of Nevada. 1865. Compiled from Railroad Surveys, U.S. Public Land Surveys, U.S. Coast Surveys, California State Geological Survey (Prof. J.D. Whitney), and from reliable private Surveys, and Published by C. Bielawski, J.D. Hoffmann & A. Poett, Civil Engineers & Survrs. Britton & Co. Lith: San Francisco. Entered ... 1865 by J.D. Hoffmann & A. Poett ... California.
List No
4822.001
Note
This scarce map shows a large band of central California from San Francisco Bay to Virginia City, Nevada. The showing of railroads is extensive with a separate table listing the engineers for each road. Topography is delineated in "crayon" style resulting in a very clear rendition of the Coast Range and the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The mining camps are shown in great number and the overall detail is most impressive with a 4 miles to 1 inch scale. The Whitney Survey "Map of Central California" of 1873 is the only map that we know of that is comparable, yet it is eight years later, at a scale of 6 miles to 1 inch, and runs from west to east from San Francisco Bay, thus ending at Mono Lake and missing Lake Tahoe. This 1865 map runs from southwest to northeast, covering Lake Tahoe and extending to Pyramid Lake in Nevada. We have not seen any map of central California of this period that has the clarity and detail of this map. The map was copyrighted in 1865 by Hoffmann and Poett, about whom not much is known, except that Hoffmann made a "Topographical Map of Lake Tahoe..." in 1874 with Ferdinand Von Leicht (Graff 4497), it is not clear why Bielawski was not also listed on the copyright - perhaps because he was for many years surveyor for the U.S. General Land Office in San Francisco. Haiman states that Bielawski "was considered the most important person in the Land Office, that he personally surveyed and was generally recognized as the best authority on real property titles in the state." This copy is folded into untitled brown cloth covers stamped with a decorative border.
Blum, George W.
Title Page: Cyclers' guide a
1896
Guide Book
Authors
Blum, George W.
Full Title
(Title Page to) The Cyclers' Guide and Road Book of California Containing Map of California in relief with principal Roads, Seven Sectional Maps showing all available Roads for Cyclers from Chico to San Diego, and a Map of Golden Gate Park. 1896. Price, One Dollar. Compiled and Published by Geo. W. Blum, 330 Pine St., S.F. Edward Denny & Co., Agents. (on verso) Copyrighted 1895 By Geo. W. Blum, San Francisco, Cal.
List No
1592B
Blum, George W.
Map of the Golden Gate Park.
1896
Guide Book
Authors
Blum, George W.
Full Title
Map of the Golden Gate Park, the Avenue and Buena Vista Park. 1895.
List No
1592.001
Note
Bike paths shown in red. The map has been updated in pencil, labeling "Chain of Lakes" and adding a new lake. A cross has also been added near Lake Stow.
Blum, George W.
Sonoma, Marin, Lake, and Nap
1896
Guide Book
Authors
Blum, George W.
Full Title
Untitled map of Sonoma, Marin, Lake, and Napa Counties.
List No
1592.002
Note
Bike paths shown in red and labeled with abbreviations. The first abbreviation of the two tells the road condition. Conditions are: G (good), F (fair), P (poor), and V.P. (very poor). The second abbreviation is for the grade of the road. Grades include: L (level), R (rolling), H (hilly), and M (mountainous).
Blum, George W.
San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Santa
1896
Guide Book
Authors
Blum, George W.
Full Title
(Untitled map of the South Bay including San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Alameda, and Contra Costa Counties.)
List No
1592.003
Note
Bike paths shown in red and labeled with abbreviations. The first abbreviation of the two tells the road condition. Conditions are: G (good), F (fair), P (poor), and V.P. (very poor). The second abbreviation is for the grade of the road. Grades include: L (level), R (rolling), H (hilly), and M (mountainous).
Blum, George W.
Map of California Roads for
1896
Guide Book
Authors
Blum, George W.
Full Title
Map of California Roads for Cyclers. This Map Engraved by the California Photo-Eng. Co. Wasp B'ld'g., 513 Market St., S.F. Designed & Drawn by Geo. W. Blum. Edward Denny & Co. 207 Montgomery St. Sole Agents. Published and Copyrighted by Geo. W. Blum, San Francisco, Cal. (with) Inset map of the Los Angeles area.
List No
1592.008
Note
Full color map surrounded by advertisements. Bike paths shown in red and labeled with abbreviations. The first abbreviation of the two tells the road condition. Conditions are: G (good), F (fair), P (poor), and V.P. (very poor). The second abbreviation is for the grade of the road. Grades include: L (level), R (rolling), H (hilly), and M (mountainous).
Geological Survey of Califor
Topographical Map of Central
1873
Separate Map
Authors
Geological Survey of California, Hoffman, Hoffmann, Charles F., Whitney, J.D.
Full Title
Topographical Map of Central California Together With a Part of Nevada. (Sheets III & IV). State Geological Survey Of California. J.D. Whitney, State Geologist. C.F. Hoffmann, Principal Topographer, V. Wackenreuder, J.T. Gardner, A. Craven, A.D. Wilson, Field Assistants. 1873 ... Julius Bien, Engr.
List No
2546.000
Note
South 2 sheets of 4, top 2 sheets never issued, thus complete. Two unmounted sheets on heavy paper. Never folded. Hoffmann was the principal topographer. Wheat says the Northwest sheet was issued, does not mention the northeast being issued. WH says the two northern sheets were issued with areas left unsurveyed, he doubts that they were ever mounted on linen and colored. So the bottom two in this issue can be considered "complete". Vogdes lists the date as 1872 (and elsewhere as 1873!). We think 1873 is correct. Vogdes says sheet II, northeast sheet, was issued in 1872, he also dates sheet III and IV as 1872, and sheet III as having an 1871 issue (Fitch had a copy of this 1871 sheet III issue on thin paper, folded into covers, Cat. 41). There is a note on the map reading "The portion of Nevada included between the parallels ... taken from the work of the 40th Parallel Survey in charge of Clarence King, by permission of Genl. A.A. Humphreys, Chief of Engineers." Outline color by county.
Colton, G.W.
California. (with) City of S
1856
World Atlas
Authors
Colton, G.W.
Full Title
California. (with) City of San Francisco. Published By J.H. Colton & Co. No. 172 William St. New York. Entered ... 1855 by J.H. Colton ... New York. No. 52.
List No
0149.057
Note
The state and city map in full color by county.
Duflot de Mofras, Eugene
Title Page: Exploration du T
1844
Exploration Book
Authors
Duflot de Mofras, Eugene
Full Title
(Title Page to) Exploration Du Territoire De L'Oregon, Des Californies Et De La Mer Vermeille, Executee Pendant Les Annees 1840, 1841 Et 1842, Par M. Duflot De Mofras, Attache A La Legation De France A Mexico. Ouvrage Publie Par Ordre Du Roi, Sous Les Auspices De M. Le Marechal Soult, Duc De Dalmatie, President du Conseil, Et De M. Le Ministre Des Affaires Etrangeres. Tome Premier. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, Editeur, Libraire De La Societe De Geographie, Rue Hautefeuille, No. 23. 1844. Paris. - Typographie de Firmin Didot Freres, rue Jacob, 56 ... Tome Second ... Atlas (with map) Carte De La Cote De L'Amerique Sur L'Ocean Pacifique Septentrional comprenant Le Territoire De L'Oregon, Les Californies, La Mer Vermeille ...
List No
4119C
Note
Considered to be the best book on California prior to the American occupation. Wheat calls the large map "a landmark...It made these western regions known in European official circles...his highly original map has much to commend it." Wheat neglects to mention the similarities between this map and the John Arrowsmith Map of British North America, 1837 edition. While not a copy of the Arrowsmith, it clearly followed the Arrowsmith map in most areas. The atlas volume contains, in addition to the large map, plans of ports from Acapulco to the Aleutians, including San Diego, Santa Barbara, Monterey, San Francisco, and the mouth of the Columbia. The chart of San Francisco Bay is based on Beechey's chart of 1833, improved by de Mofras' own explorations, particularly in the north bay. This copy belonged to the Prince of Coburg, with a presentation inscription from the author. The large map is hand painted in outline color, all others are without color. Covers of the volumes are half leather dark green cloth covered boards with a crown embossed on the front in gilt. The title "De Mofras. Mexique. Californie. Oregon. 1" is stamped in gilt on the spine of volume one, "... 2" on volume two, and "...Atlas" on the atlas. Rare.
Duflot de Mofras, Eugene
Carte De La Cote De L'Ameriq
1844
Exploration Book
Authors
Duflot de Mofras, Eugene
Full Title
Carte De La Cote De L'Amerique Sur L'Ocean Pacifique Septentrional Le Territoire De L'Oregon, Les Californies, La Mer Vermeille, Partie des Territoires de la Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson, Et De L'Amerique Russe. Dressee par Mr. Duflot de Mofras, Attache a la Legation de France a Mexico, Pour servir a l'intelligence de son Voyage d'exploration Publie Par Ordre Du Roi, sous les Auspices De Mr. Le Marechal Duc De Dalmatie, Mr. Le Ministre Des Affaires Etrangeres. Paris, 1844. Le plan grave par Jacobs. L'ecriture gravee par Hacq. Publie par Arthus Bertrand.
List No
4119.001
Note
Map in outline color with copious notes throughout California. Mines, ports, Indian settlements, forts, and missions are shown.
Duflot de Mofras, Eugene
Port De San Francisco Dans L
1844
Exploration Book
Authors
Duflot de Mofras, Eugene
Full Title
Port De San Francisco Dans La Haute Californie. No. 16. (with) Entree Du Port De San Francisco et des mouillages del Sausalito et de la Yerba Buena. Publie Par Arthus Bertrand. Grave par S. Jacobs. Voyage de Mr. Duflot de Mofras.
List No
4119.010
Note
Map of the San Francisco Bay region. Highly detailed.
Duflot de Mofras, Eugene
Tete De Chef Indien De La Co
1844
Exploration Book
Authors
Duflot de Mofras, Eugene
Full Title
Tete De Chef Indien De La Cote Nord Ouest De L'Amerique. Armes et ustensiles des Indiens de la Nouvelle Californie. No. 25 de l'Atlas. Publie par Arthus Bertrand. Imp. par Lemercier. Lith. par Muller. Voyage de Mr. Duflot de Mofras.
List No
4119G
Note
Uncolored drawing of an Indian from California along with his utensils, tools and attire.
Duflot de Mofras, Eugene
Cranes Des Indiens Tetes Pla
1844
Exploration Book
Authors
Duflot de Mofras, Eugene
Full Title
Cranes Des Indiens Tetes Plates De La Cote Nord-Ouest De L'Amerique. Pl. 26 . Paris, Arthus Bertrand, Editeur. Lithographie par Werner. Imprime par Becquet. Atlas du Voyage de Mr. Duflot de Mofras.
List No
4119H
Note
Uncolored drawings of skulls and a board for carrying a baby.
Frey, A.C., Nell, Louis
Topographical Railroad & Cou
1868
Pocket Map
Authors
Frey, A.C., Nell, Louis
Full Title
Topographical Railroad & County Map Of The States Of California And Nevada Compiled from the latest explorations and other official information by L. Nell, N.Y. Published by A.C. Frey & Co 204 Fulton St. New York. General Agents for California A. Roman & Co. 417 & 419 Montgomery St. San Francisco. Ferd. Mayer & Co. Lithographers, 96 Fulton St. N.Y. Entered ... 1868 by Frey & Nell ... New York. (inset) Map of the City of San Francisco, California. (inset) Map Of The Great National Pacific Railroads.
List No
3440.000
Note
Wheat writes several pages about this map, being impressed with its up to date cartography. Williamson's proposed route through the Owyhee to the Idaho mines is shown, as well as much current detail in central Nevada and all of California. The influence of Williamson's 1866 "Map of Parts of California, Nevada, Oregon and Idaho Territory" (both the published and the ms version) is obvious. A wheel shows the "Difference of time between S. Francisco and other important Cities." This may be Louis Nell's first commercial map, before his extensive work for the Wheeler Survey in the 1870's and his Colorado maps of the 1880's. The railroad map shows the Union Pacific completed to Cheyenne and the Central Pacific to the Nevada border. This is both a beautiful map and an excellent depiction of California and Nevada just before the completion of the railroad. Wheat mentions that the towns of the Humboldt valley are sprinkled with names that disappear in a few years with the coming of the railroad. Full color by county.
Eddy, William M., Jones, Wil
Title Page: Subject of land
1851
City Atlas
Authors
Eddy, William M., Jones, William Carey
Full Title
(Title Page to) Report of the Secretary of the Interior, Communicating A Copy of the report of William Carey Jones, special agent to examine the subject of land titles in California. ... January 30, 1851. Ordered to be printed. [Senate.] 31st Congress, 1st Session. Ex. Doc. No. 18. (With) Eddy's Official Map of San Francisco ... 1849.
List No
2321A
Eddy, William M., Jones, Wil
Official Map of San Francisc
1851
City Atlas
Authors
Eddy, William M., Jones, William Carey
Full Title
Official Map of San Francisco, Compiled from the Field Notes of the Official Re-Survey made by William M. Eddy. Surveyor of the Town of San Francisco, California. 1849. S.W. Higgins. Draftn. Copied by P.M. McGill C.E. & Draftn. Washington. C.B. Graham lith. Washington, D.C.
List No
2321.001
Note
Map is without color except for three small sections that show a grant to Senora Briones, the claim of the heirs of Col. J.A. King, and the claim of Senor Pana under a Mexican grant.
Mitchell, Samuel Augustus
County Map Of California.
1860
World Atlas
Authors
Mitchell, Samuel Augustus
Full Title
County Map Of California. 37. (with) two inset maps: Map Of The Settlements in the Great Salt Lake Country. Utah. 38. San Francisco Bay and Vicinity. 39. Entered ... 1860, by S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. ... Pennsylvania.
List No
0565.027
Note
In full color by county.
South San Francisco Land & I
South San Francisco.
1890
Separate Map
Authors
South San Francisco Land & Improvement Co.
Full Title
South San Francisco Issued By The South San Francisco Land & Improvement Co. San Francisco, Cal. Plat Of South San Francisco. Rand, McNally & Co., Engravers, Chicago. Earnshaw & Punshon, Surveyors and Landscape Engineers, Cincinnati, Ohio.
List No
5293.000
Note
An early South San Francisco land promotion map. Very well executed. With full printed color. Date estimated.
United States Coast Survey
San Francisco & vicinity.
1853
Chart Map
Authors
United States Coast Survey
Full Title
U.S. Coast Survey A.D. Bache, Superintendent, City Of San Francisco And Its Vicinity California. From a Trigonometrical Survey by R.D. Cutts, Assistant. Topography by A.F. Rodgers Sub-assistant. Hydrography by the Party under the command of Lieut. James Alden U.S.N. Asst. 1853. U.S. Coast Survey Office. Price 50 Cents. Verified I.I. Stevens ... No. 627. Outlines and Topography engraved by Max. F.O. Strobel, Lettering by E.F. Woodward.
List No
3463.000
Note
Vogdes shows this as the first edition. Vogdes says that the survey was completed in April, 1852, and that the interior topography was taken from Eddy's official map of the city. We have a reproduction of an earlier state of the chart which has no soundings and is dated 1852, it says the plan of the city was taken from the map by Cooke and Le Count, there are differences in the piers and the buildings along the piers. We can find no reference for this earlier state. In the Annual Report of the Survey for 1853, another issue of the chart was published (litho) with the addition of more notes regarding tides in the upper left - this same chart was also issued (engraved on thin paper) in the collection of charts published by the survey in 1854. Map is without color.
United States Coast Survey
City Of San Francisco And It
1859
Chart Map
Authors
United States Coast Survey
Full Title
U.S. Coast Survey A.D. Bache, Superintendent. City Of San Francisco And Its Vicinity California. Topography by A.F. Rodgers, Sub-assistant. Hydrography by the Party under the command of Lieut. R.M. Cuyler N.S.N. Assistant. Published in 1859. U.S. Coast Survey Office. Price 40 cents. Verified W.R. Palmer Capt. Topl. Engrs. Asst. C.S. In charge of Office. Lith. of J. Bien 60 Fulton St. N.Y.
List No
1030.000
Note
Heavy paper chart, uses contours. First issued in 1857, with another edition issued later in 1857 that differs from the earlier 1857 edition and is apparently the same as this 1859 edition (Vogdes). Without color. Map is bordered in blue silk, dissected into 8 sections, and folds into a new mauve cloth folding case with "U.S. Coast Survey San Francisco 1859" stamped in gilt on the spine.
United States Coast Survey
San Francisco Peninsula.
1869
Separate Map
Authors
United States Coast Survey
Full Title
San Francisco Peninsula. U.S. Coast Survey. Benjamin Peirce, Superintendent. 1869. Price $1.50. Verified J.E. Hilgard. Assist Coast Survey. In Charge of Office.
List No
2648.000
Note
Heavy paper chart, uses contour lines. This is one of the first Coast Survey charts that we have seen that uses contour lines, other than the 1859 City of San Francisco and Its Vicinity (see our copy). Map without color. Published as map #14 in the "Report of the Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, Showing the Progress of the Survey During the Year 1869." The report was finally published in 1872 and was the House of Representatives report from the 41st Congress, 2d Session, Ex. Doc. No. 206.
Vancouver, George, 1757-1798
Title Page: Voyage of discov
1798
Chart Atlas
Authors
Vancouver, George, 1757-1798
Full Title
(Title Page to) A Voyage Of Discovery To The North Pacific Ocean And Round The World In Which The Coast of North-West America Has Been Carefully Examined And Accurately Surveyed. Undertaken by His Majesty's Command, Principally With A View To Ascertain The Existence Of Any Navigable Communication Between The North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans, And Performed In The Years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795 In The Discovery Sloop Of War, And Armed Tender Chatham, Under The Command Of Captain George Vancouver. In Three Volumes. London: Printed For G.G. And J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, And J. Edwards, Pall-Mall. 1798.
List No
3354B
Note
Title page from the first volume describing the voyages. Atlas volume was printed without its own title page.
Vancouver, George, 1757-1798
The Coast of N.W. America.
1798
Chart Atlas
Authors
Vancouver, George, 1757-1798
Full Title
A Chart shewing part of the Coast of N.W. America, With the Tracks of His Majesty's Sloop Discovery and Armed Tender Chatham, Commanded by George Vancouver Esqr. and prepared under his immediate inspection by Lieut. Joseph Baker, in which the Continental Shore has been traced and determined from Lat. 30¼00'N. and Long. 244¼32' E. to Lat. 38¼30'N and Long 237¼13'E. Engraved by T. Foot, Weston Place, Battle Bridge. No. 8. (with) Entrance of Port Sn. Francisco. (and) Port Sn. Diego. London: Published May 1st 1798, by J. Edwards Pall Mall & G. Robinson Paternoster Row.
List No
3354.008
Note
Map uncolored and shaded. Note in the title cartouche states, "The parts shaded Red are taken from Spanish Authorities." (No red shading has been added to this copy.) The vessels' tracks are shown by dotted lines. Spanish Missions and Presidios are noted. Map extends from St. Domingo, Mexico in the south to Point Reyes, California in the north.
Vancouver, George, 1757-1798
Views of Parts of the Coast
1798
Chart Atlas
Authors
Vancouver, George, 1757-1798
Full Title
Views of Parts of the Coast of North West America. 9. W. Alexander delt. from Sketches made on the spot. London: Published May 1st 1798, by R. Edwards New Bond Street, J. Edwards Pall Mall and G. Robinson Paternoster Row. J. Fittler sculp.
List No
3354.009
Note
Uncolored views including Punto de los Reyes and the Bay of Sir Francis Drake, Port of St. Francisco, Point Pinos, Santa Barbara, the entrance to the Port of St. Diego, and Cape Colnett.
Langley, Henry G., Wackenreu
City And County Of San Franc
1861
Separate Map
Authors
Langley, Henry G., Wackenreuder, V.
Full Title
City And County Of San Francisco. Compiled From Official Surveys And Sectionalized In Accordance With U.S. Surveys. Drawn By V. Wackenreuder, C.E. 1861. Published By Henry G. Langley For the San Francisco Directory. Entered ... 1861 By Henry G. Langley ... California. Britton & Co. Print. (with 3 inset maps of the Farrallon Islands).
List No
3867.000
Note
First map of the city to be included in Langley's directory. Early map to show the western and southern parts of the peninsula, with the land grants, and full topography. Also shows the northern part of San Mateo County and a small part of Marin County. Three insets show the Farrallon Islands. Directory not present. Map is without color.
Arnold, T. J. (Thomas Jeffer
Map exhibiting the salt mars
1874
Chart Map, Wall Map
Authors
Arnold, T. J. (Thomas Jefferson), d. 1878, California. Board of State Harbor Commissioners for San Francisco Harbor
Full Title
Map exhibiting the salt marsh, tide and submerged lands disposed of by the State of California in and adjacent to the bays of San Francisco and San Pablo and now subject to reclamation. Prepared from maps of the U.S. Coast Survey & official records by order of the Board of State Harbor Commissioners for the United States Commissioners on San Francisco Harbor. By T.J. Arnold, engineer of the sea wall. 1874. U.S. Commissioners Rear Admiral John Rodgers, Major G.H. Mendell, Prof. George Davidson. State Harbor Commissioners Samuel Soule, T.D. Mathewson, D.C. McRuer. Britton Rey & Co. Lith. S.F.
List No
4469.000
Note
This map shows the shoreline property sold by the state to private parties and "now subject to reclamation" (i.e. ready to be filled). The Vogdes map is probably later. An unusual view of the bay, with east at the top, shows water depths. With black top and bottom rollers. With full printed color in subtle tan shades. Printed on 2 sheets. David Rumsey copy mounted as one sheet, backed with cloth.
Chevalier, August
The "Chevalier" ... Map of S
1911
Wall Map
Authors
Chevalier, August
Full Title
The "Chevalier" Commercial, Pictorial and Tourist Map of San Francisco From Latest U.S. Gov. and Official Surveys. Designed-Engraved And Copyrighted By Aug. Chevalier, Lithographer Publisher, San Francisco ... copyrighted 1911 ...
List No
0140.000
Note
1st edition was 1903. A very beautiful map of San Francisco showing contour lines, all important buildings and public improvements are drawn in vignettes on the map. At the bottom of the map is the publisher's statement: "This Map is an Improved and Enlarged Edition of The Commercial Pictorial and Tourist Map of San Francisco Copyrighted Dec. 1903 by August Chevalier. Similar Maps For Other Cities in the U.S. Are Being Made." "The Exposition City 1915"