002ca:
 1924 Large Map of Southern California. From Monterey to Mexico border. Commercial lithographic map by Rand McNally. Lists and shows old railroads and shipping lines. Great detail on this large scale map. Principal cities listed in margin.
28x21 in. $80

004California:
Pacific Coast Point Pinos to Bodega Head California, 1862 - A very large engraved and detailed chart extending from Monterrey Bay north to Bodega Bay, including all of San Francisco and San Pablo bays, and north to Petaluma. The chart has extremely detailed information including soundings, light houses, islands and remarkable coastline detail. Cities of Oakland, Vallejo, Benicia, Brooklyn, Union City, Redwood City and more are located, Half Moon Bay is Spanish Town. This map provides a terrific view of the development of the region around San Francisco little more than a decade after the start of the Gold Rush, includes two inset views of Pt Reyes, and Noon Day Rock in the Farallones.
Condition: Good, yellowing on horizontal and vertical folds, small left margin.
size 27 x 36 image
$400

007ca:
 1888 San Francisco Public Buildings. Hand colored lithograph, six views on one page.
11-1/2x15-1/2 in. $60

010ca:
1871 San Francisco Chinatown. Two views, Celebration of New Year and Chinese Joss-House. 11x16 in. $50

012ca:
 1877 "Correr El Gallo"- Sunday Sports in Southern California. This hand colored engraving shows cowboys engaging in games on the prairie. This genuine antique print is from the March, 1877 edition of Harper's Weekly. 11x16 in. $80



013ca:
 1888 San Diego California. Black and white lithographic view of Point of Rocks. 16x12 in. $30

017ca:
Silent Film Tinted Lobby card. “His Own Law” Starring Hobart Boswell produced by Samuel Goldwyn. 1920. Shows crowd scene, a Mountie, and an unconscious woman.
14 x 11 in. $35



022ca:
 1873 Seal Rocks San Francisco. Hand colored engraving from Picturesque America. 12-1/2x9-1/2 in. $40



023ca:
1882 Colusa County California Interior. Cowboys shooting wild geese. Hand colored engraving, Leslie's Newspaper  front page.
11x16 in. $80
SOLD

024ca:
1873 Hand colored steel engraving titled, "Mount Shasta" in Northern California from Picturesque America. Entered According to Act of Congress by D. Appleton & Co.in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington.
Published in New York.
12-1/2 x 9 in. $50



026ca:
1876 Stockton California. Hand colored lithograph. Farm scene at harvest time in the great interior valley. 14x11 in. $60 
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028ca:
1886 Cram color California map which shows railroad lines and
other good details.
21-1/2 x 13-1/2 in. $150

029ca:
 1873 California. "Native Californians Lassoing a Bear." Hand colored steel engraving by FOC Darley. 12-1/2x9 in. $60

030California:
1878 Hand colored wood engraving showing Scenes on the North Pacific Coast Railroad, from Bay of San Francisco to the Redwood Forest in California. Top image shows the bridge across Brown Gulch on the line of the North Pacific Coast Railroad.
16 x 10-1/2 in. $60

032ca:
C.1880 California & Oregon Civil War Map. Published in color for Civil War Atlas by U.S. Government after the War. Scarce antique topographical map, shows forts, rivers, great detail. 29x18 in. $120 

033ca:
1885 Print: Grasshoppers Invade California. This professionally hand watercolored engraving is from the July 4, 1885 issue of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. The print is titled "California--The Grasshopper Invasion--Descent of a Cloud of Insects on a Grain Farm in El Dorado County." At the top of the print there is an inset view showing grasshoppers stopping a train by covering the tracks. A genuine antique print produced in 1885, NOT a reproduction!
11" x 16"  $50 

036ca:
 1907 Railroad Map of Northern California. Original color engraved antique map by Rand McNally. Lists and shows routes of over three dozen railroads of that era. Large inset of the San Francisco Bay Area. Excellent detail. 27x20 in. $80



102ca:
1901 Map: Southern California and Nevada. Beautiful map from the 1901 first edition of George Cram's folio-size world atlas. Color coded lines on the map show the names and locations of railroads throughout the region. State and county borders are outlined in yellow. Cities, towns and geographical features are all shown. This map would look great in a frame! 18x27 in. $100 
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104ca:
 1873 View of Yosemite Falls. Hand colored, engraved view of the falls as seen from Yosemite Valley. Published in Picturesque America, an 1873 book about American scenery. 9x13 in. $40

107ca:
1873 Scene in Oakland California. Hand colored engraving from Picturesque America, titled "The Oaks of Oakland." Shows a street scene in the city, with pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages
passing by huge
live oak trees. 9x12 in. $50



108ca:
1876 Sonoma County California Views. This color lithograph from a California state atlas shows two views of Sonoma County:land and sawmill owned by the Meeker Bros.Company and the Residence of William Howard, Howard Summit.The left hand border of print has been archivally repaired. Image not affected. 17x14.5 in. $120



109ca:
 Large panorama of Hotel Green in Pasadena. Beautiful colored lithograph c1910 shows the two main buildings connected by a covered "bridge" walkway. Tear in right side has been archivally repaired and is not visually distracting.
48x14 in. $450

131ca:
1855 Map showing the Different Routes Travelled over by the Detachments of the Overland Command from Salt Lake City to the San Francisco Bay. Hand colored lithographed map.
23 x 19-1/2 in. $350

156sfo:
Straits of Carquines and Vallejo, Ringgold 1850 - A very large chart with four insetsin original color, showing the primary anchorages in San Francisco Bay and Environs at the outset of the 1849 California Gold Rush. Inset 1: Vallejo Bay; Inset 2: Mare Island; Inset 3: Sacramento City; Inset 4: San Francisco; Inset 5: Susuin Bay (called New York of the Pacific). Cadwalader Ringgold was a US Navy Officer who served in the US Exploring Expedition and later headed an expedition to the Northwest, before retiring briefly before the Civil War. Ringgold entered the US Navy in 1819 and commanded the schooner Weazel against the West Indian pirates in the late 1820s. From 1838 to 1842, he participated in the Wilkes Expedition. In AUgust, 1841, Ringgold led a 60-man exploring party in San Francisco Bay, exploring the sources of the Bay for twenty days. This expedition traveled as far as Colusa, California. In July of 1849, Ringgold returned to San Francisco as commander of an official survey team surveying the harbor, shortly after the announcement of the discovery of gold in California.
Condition: Excellent with some foxing in lower margins and some water marks on left border and near image.
32 x 22 in.
$300

200California:
California Cartoon Map - 1938 color, pictorial cartoon map of California showing trails, elevations, scenic spots, written description and lots more. Published by Mentholatum Company, Wilmington, Delaware.
22 x 17 in. $225

204ca:
1873 Thomas Moran Lake Tahoe California View. Beautifully hand colored woodcut engraving, drawn by Thomas Moran and published in Picturesque America 1873. Title is "Lake Tahoe." Shows a view from the lake shore, with a small steamboat in the distance.
9x12 in. $50



205ca:
 1873 Thomas Moran Donner Lake California View. Beautifully hand colored woodcut engraving, drawn by Thomas Moran and published in Picturesque America 1873. Title is "Donner Lake, Nevada." Donner lake is now in California, near the Nevada border. Nice panoramic view of the lake, as seen from the
 mountains nearby.
9x12 in. $50



207ca:
 1873 Print: Giant Redwoods of California. This hand colored, wood-engraved print is from the Feb. 1, 1873 issue of Harper's Weekly. The print is titled "The Sentinels--Gigantic Trees of California." It shows a horse and buggy driving between two gigantic redwood trees.. The trees are in what is now called the Calaveras Big Trees State Park, in the central Sierra Nevada mountains. This print is
in excellent condition.
11x16 in. $80
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214ca:
Double page spread from Harper's Weekly dated October 30, 1886. Beautiful hand colored engraving showing seven panels titled, Felling the Red-Wood Trees of California. Drawn by Charles Graham.
 16x22 in. $220
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000California:
Denny’s Pocket Map of Lake County California, 1920 - A large folding blue-line pocket map of Lake County, California, blue on white background, very detailed map of the county by Edward Denny and Co. The title on the wrapper reads "Denny's Map - Lake County California... Published by Edward Denny, rare map only a few copies at U.C. Berkeley and U.C. Davis.
Condition: Very good, size 17 x 22 3/4 image,
folding into stiff paper wrappers to a 7 x 4 1/4" pocket. $200
SOLD

025min:
1894 Colemanite Mining in the Mojave Desert, Southern California. Half-tone images featured in Leslie's Weekly. Seven vignettes, including one of Death Valley works.
16 x 11 in. $35

075ci:
C.1860s Rare Currier & Ives hand colored lithograph titled, "Yo-Semite Falls, California." Medium
folio in fine condition.
15-1/2 x 12 in. $900

010pictorialmaps:
Spanish California. 1956. A Map of the Missions, Pueblos, Ranchos and Routes of Exploration by Lowell Butler. For AAA, Published by Westways Magazine.
46 x 32 in. $65

003whl: 1877 California Whaling. Whaling station off the California coast near Monterey. Harper's front page. 11x16 in. $80

215ca:
Beautiful 1872 map of Southern California and Nevada. Published by Asher & Adams in the New Statistical and Topographical Atlas of the United States. Original hand coloring. 17.5x24.5 in. $200

216ca:
 Very Rare Birds-Eye view of Riverside, California. Beautiful colored lithographs from c1875. Vignettes around center picture show, the Court House, Chaffey College, Irrigating Ditch, and Irrigating an Orange Grove.
13.5x10 in. $100

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218ca:
1851 Mare Island Straits map. This hand colored engraving shows San Pablo Bay, Mare Island, the Mare Island straits with soundings, the Straits of Karquines(sic) and the Site of Vallejo - the seat of government of California". The title of the map is: "Sketch J No.2, U.S. Coast Survey, A.D. Bache, Superintendent, Mare Island Straits California, 1851". 8.5x13.5 in. $60

221ca:
 Hand colored wood engraving from The Northwest Magazine dated July, 1889. The caption at the bottom is, " General view of Klamath City, California". Image is a distant view showing a horse-shoe bend in the river with a bridge, railroad tracks, streets and buildings.
 13.5x20 in. $150

224ca:
 1854 Pulgas Base map. This hand colored engraving shows the "Pulgas Base" line in the San Jose area. The title of the map is: Sketch J No.5, U.S. Coast Survey, A.D. Bache, Superintendent, Pulgas Base, California, 1854. Inset of the position of Pulgas Base in the Vicinity of San Francisco Bay.
10x13 in. $50

225ca:
This is a RARE chromolithograph done by Britton & Rey for the San Francisco Newsletter's Christmas edition 1883. Image is of the Hotel Del Monte in Monterey. The title of this double spread page is,"Hotel Del Monte, Monterey,Cal. The Leading Seaside Resort of the Pacific Coast". It is a distant view showing the entire hotel building and all of the surrounding gardens. 21x16 in. $450
SOLD


226ca:
Ceanothus Papillosus - Dentatus (Torr & Gray) hand colored lithograph by Horto Van Houtteano.
10 x 6-1/2 in. $60



227ca:
1874 Calochortus Leightlini - Californie chromolithograph by Horto Van Houtteano.
9-1/2 x 6-1/2 in. $80



228ca:
 Beautiful hand colored engraving of California. Map published by J.H. Colton & Co. in 1855. Inset in upper right corner of the City
 of San Francisco.
14x16.5 in. $200

232ca:
 Chinese Americans in San Francisco. Two hand colored views from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper dated August 24, 1878. Images showing California - An Evening in the Chinese Quarter of San Francisco. Top image is titled "The all-night supper spread in the dressing room of the royal Chinese Theatre" Bottom image is titled "Interior of the Royal China Theatre during a performance." Short article between the two images describes the goings on in around the Chinese Theatre.
 11x16 in. $60

237ca:
Rare antique print showing five images of the Sierra Nevada Mountain range. Hand colored views from Harper's Weekly dated February 22, 1890. Image titled "The Sierra Nevada Snow Blockade". Clockwise captions read "Collapsed snow sheds at Emigrant Gap", "The Outfit Train at Blue Canyon", "Deep Cut Near Summit", "General View of Blue Canyon" and "Ploughing Out Main Track Near Summit".
 22x16 in. $250 
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238ca:
Beautiful hand colored views of images in Southern California - In and About San Diego, "The City of Perpetual Summer". From Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper dated March 23, 1880. Five images title "Pierce - Morse Block", "Consolidated National Bank", "View of San Diego Bay & Harbor", "The First National Bank" and "California National Bank."
 11x16 in. $80



242ca:
1916 The Mount Tamalpais Outdoor Play article written in text, featuring two half-tone photographs with commentary about "Shakuntala," as hundreds of onlookers enjoy the sunshine as they watch
the actors perform.
10x14in. $30


243ca:
1888 Views in Lower California. Hand colored wood engraving featuring four different scenes, published in The Illustrated London News.
16 x 11 in. $50



244ca:
1901 article published in Scientific American on July 27, 1901. Featuring two views of fog studies on Mt. Tamalpais.
 11x16in. $30



245ca:
 1872 Coast Scene, Marin County. Hand colored wood engraving titled, "Coast Scene, Marin County." 9x12.5in. $40



248ca:
 San Jose residence of J.S. Carter, Esq. AND Residence of Thos. Fallon, Esq. Hand-colored lithograph featuring two different pictures. (Condition: Patched tear on right side of lower picture; barely noticeable). 13x17in. $150



250ca:
Residence of Mr. & Mrs. C.H. Maddox AND Residence of Mrs. S.L. Knox. Hand colored lithograph featuring two different pictures. (Condition: Small water stain in bottom right near corner; small tea near top right).
13x17in. $150



251ca:
 Residence of B.F. Watkins and Orchard Farm in top picture AND Somerville Lodge" Farm & Residence of L.H. Bascom in bottom picture. Both are hand colored lithographs. 13x17in. $150



252ca:
 1889 San Rafael and the Golden Gate - Drawn by Charles Graham. Six hand colored wood engravings depicting views of San Rafael and surrounding views of the Golden Gate. Published in Harper's Weekly on January 26, 1889. Volume XXXIII., No. 1675.
11x16in. $120



255ca:
1856 Lynch Law in California - Surrender of Prisoners At the County Gaol, San Francisco. Hand colored wood engraving published in The Illustrated London News on July 12, 1856. Featured on the bottom of page with text and other engravings on top. 11x16in. $40

 

262ca:
C.1850 Hand colored wood engraving featured in Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion. Title of bottom image is, "Mission of San Carlos, California."
15-1/2 x 11 in. $45



263ca:
Hand colored wood engraving showing the Giant Trees of California. Featured in
Voyages and Travels.
12 x 8-1/2 in. $40
SOLD

 

270ca:
1880 Original Thompson & West lithograph from the History of Sacramento County, California, published in Oakland, Cal. This image is part of the "Big Four" of Central Pacific Railroad fame and shows Huntington Hopkins & Co. Hardware Store, originally owned by Mark Hopkins and Collis P. Huntington. The store survives today as part of Old Sacramento. Lithograph is matted and
in fine condition.
17 x 14 in. $250

272ca:
1856 Hand colored wood engraving featured in Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion which is titled, "California Gold-Diggers -- A Scene From Actual Life At the Mines." 21-1/2 x 15 in. $400
SOLD

273ca:
1888 Hand-tinted etching showing, "Trinity Peaks -- California," By Julian Rix. Fine condition.
14 x 10-1/4 in. $80

275ca:
1855 Geological Map of California, explored by Lieut. R.S. Williamson to accompany William Blake's Report. Bottom left of map shows nine types of rocks that are color-keyed. Originally folded and
in fine condition.
25 x 19 in. $175
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276California:
1855 J. H. Colton original hand colored engraved map showing California with inset top right of the City of San Francisco. Colton was among the earliest map makers with very accurate maps depicting cities and states in the United States.
17-1/2 x 14-1/2 in. $295

278ca:
1872 Lithographed Map of Public Surveys of California to accompany Report of Surveyor Genl. Left side of map shows a List of Grants
Finally Surveyed.
32 x 37 in. $700
SOLD

279California:
Johnson’s California, Territories of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and Utah 1863 - A large engraved and original hand colored map of California & the Southwest, the map has a very decorative border, pastel colored counties and shows a number of interesting territorial anomalies. Nevada has its lower corner truncated, leaving Las Vegas in Arizona. Utah extends approximately 1 degree too far to the west, prior to the last set of reductions undertaken by the US Government. Several counties still extend into both Arizona and New Mexico. In each of the states and territories, the county configurations are still largely incomplete. This is one of the most detailed accurate commercial maps of the era that includes the US Pony express route, explorer routes, the major routes of commerce, towns, forts, Indian Tribes, mountains, rivers, roads, mining districts, proposed railroad routes, important dates in the evolution of the US-Mexico Boundary, etc. Johnson's map of the West is one of the most interesting and collectable maps of the period. The maps were updated annually or more often, showing profound territorial boundary changes and county formations from year to year and even within a single year. Condition: Very good, fold in middle with some staining along the fold, water marks on margins and some light foxing inside image.
size 23.5 15.5 image.
$600

281ca:
Crocker of "Big Four" Fame - Playing Railroad Poker - Foote being tricked in a poker game with Humphrey and Carpener helping Crocker. Original page from The Wasp magazine. C.1895 chromolithograph.
13-1/2 x 10 in. $125

033brd:
Promerops or Bee-Eater of North California. This 1798 rare hand colored copper engraving is by J.R. Prevost is from the La Perouse Voyages.
17 x 11 in. $150

022frame:
Sir Francis Drake c.1745. Copper engraving of the famous 16th century British Explorer. Museum matted in simple wooden frame.
Frame size: 14” x 19” in. $125



238rr:
Southern Pacific 1946 Division Maps. (19) Maps - very detailed of the South Pacific R.R. Lines. Very good condition.
10 3/4 x 15 in. $325

320California:
1860 Mitchell's County Map of California. Showing travel routes, towns, and cities throughout. Inset map of the settlements in the Great Salt Lake Country, Utah. Hand colored, lithograph. **Minor water stains along border.
12 1/2 x 15 1/4 in. $275

321California:
1888 Hand colored lithograph of Mt. Tam showing the bay and mountain with low cloud covering and sailboats. A buoy rocks in the rough surf as seagulls flock overhead.
12 x 15 1/2 in. $80

322California:
1873 County Map of California and Nevada. Warner & Beers. Shows towns, railroads, roads, rivers, mountains, dry lakes, Indian Tribes, etc. Showing only 6 Southern California Counties.
15 3/8 x 18 1/8 in. $200

323California:
Mining Map of Tuolumne County, California. Reference to mines shown on bottom of map. Rivers, creeks, railroads and roads are also shown.
16 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. $90
SOLD

325California:
Carte de la Californie. 1772 deVaugondy. Map highlighting California. Showing Anian to Cabo San Lucas (Baja, Ca) – Copper engraving. Fine condition.
15 ¼ x 18 in. $425

326California:
I Love You California. Sheet music by F.B. Silverwood & A.F. Frankenstien. 1913.
9 x 12 in. $60

327California:
1928 California and Nevada. Southern half of California. Showing the cities, topographical details, railroad lines, lakes, etc.
17 5/8 x 25 1/8 in. $60

328California:
1901 Tunison's California (Northern half) and Nevada. Showing the cities, topographical details, counties, lakes, etc.
14 5/8 x 23 1/8 in. $60

006California:
San Francisco to Umpquah River 1854,

295California:
San Francisco to San Diego. 1852 US Coast Survey - 17 detailed insets of bays and capes, etc.  Also Farallon Island, Channel Islands, and Catalina.
25 x 24 in., folded in the middle.
$500

297California:
Hetch Hetchy Water Supply Edition 1920. The Banner newspaper from Sonora, Tuolome County. 8pp – Entire large format newspaper devotes to H.H. includes history on the organization, hospital, surveys, people; plus 1933 Chronicle article “O'Shaughnessy. Backs bonds for Water, Dam Projects.”
18 x 24 in. $85

298California:
California Road Map “Wagon Road” 1916. Huge early map with red lines showing county, wagon and automobile roads by W. Elliott Judge. Also includes population, city statistics. Insets of SF and LA. Very good condition. Interesting inset showing all New England, N.Y. and Ohio could fit inside California.
62 x 41 in. $800

299California:
Suisun City and Vallejo Bay. Confluence of Sacrament and San Juaquin Valley Rivers by Cadwalader Ringgold 1850. Insets of Benicia, Tongue Shoal and entrance of Sacramento River. Shows depths, towns and island names. Hand colored. **Center fold has been archivally mended.
22 x 32 in. $500

301California:
1854 California Harbors of Crescent City, Mendocino. Shelter Cove, Port Orford (Oregon).
15 x 19 in. $350

304California:
1853 Santa Barbara U.S. Coast Survey Map. Inset – View of Town and Mission. Shows early settlement the of the Mission, Arroyo Pedregoso and Point Castillo.
15 3/8 x 17 3/4 in. $600

305California:
1854 Ano Nuevo and Santa Cruz Harbor. Inset of Ano Nuevo and Coast South of San Francisco. Showing the 2 locations. Ano Nuevo is home to the Elephant seals. U.S. Coast Survey. Hand colored, lithograph.
13 3/4 x 13 1/4 in. $280

306California:
Lassens Butte From Vicinity of Camp 18. 1855 USPRR Exp & Survey - Cal & Oregon. Plate I.
8 1/4 x 11 1/4 in. $50 

307California:
Crossing of Chowchillas River. 1855 USPRR Exp & Surveys. Plate III.
8 1/4 x 11 1/4 in. $50 

308California:
Mission and Plain of San Fernando. USPRR Exp & Surveys. Plate VI.
8 3/4 x 11 1/4 in. $100

309California:
Shasta Butte and Shasta Valley from a Point Near Camp 70 A. USPRR Exp & Surveys. Plate XII.
8 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. $50

310California:
Colorado Desert and Signal Mountain. 1855 USPRR Exp & Surveys. Plate XI.
8 x 11 in. $60

311California:
Valley in the Slope of the Great Basin. -Leading from the Tejon Pass. 1855 USPRR Exp & Surveys. Plate XI.
8 x 11 in. $60

312California:
Vicinity of Fort Miller. 1855 USPRR Exp & Surveys. Plate I.
8 x 11 in. $40

313California:
Gilroy, Santa Clara County 1887. Birdseye view + 4pp article about it's history and 1 page of ads.
6 7/16 x 10 1/8 in. $60

314California:
Crescent City. St. Georges Reef 1872. Shows Crescent City, Lake Earl, Pt. St. George, Rocks, and soundings. Hand colored, lithograph.
21 1/2 x 26 1/4 in. $150

315California:
Huge California Map 1904. Map published by the Call Newspaper. Insets of Cal Building, the Bay Area and LA area. Lists churches, towns, population. Color coded by county. Verso: World & USA maps.
32 1/2 x 44 5/8 in. $375

317California:
Black Rock Desert 1944. Nevada War Department Map. “Elko Sheet” – Large Geological Map issued during World War II. Shows Pyramid Lake, Smoke Creek Desert, roads, railroads, markers, mountain ranges from California state line to Utah state line. Black Rock Desert is home to the world renown “Burning Man.”
Size: 24 x 43 ¾ in. $60

318California:
Mayacmas District 1903 – Showing quicksilver in Napa, Sonoma and Lake County. Colors show Basal or Andesite, Serpentine, Metamorphic mines are identified.
10 ½ x 26 ¾ in. $150
SOLD

289California:
1940 Commercial and School Map of California by Thomas Bros. Folded map consists of 16 panels laid down on linen. Shows tables of Highway mileage, Townships, and 1940’s population. Insets of San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles and vicinity.
65 x 45 in. $250

 
112California:
1898 Color Rand, McNally & Co.'s California Railroads map shich shows all the railroads of that era in red, shows the mountain ridges, many cities, lakes, counties, and shows insets of Marin in Northern California, Los Angeles and San Bernardino in lower inset, islands in the Pacific Ocean which surround California, and many other
points of interest.
27-1/2 x 20-1/2 in. $300
SOLD

 

268California:
1854 US Coast Survey Reconnaissance of Smith’s or Blunt Island and Anacapa Island, Whistler, 1854. Two very handsome engraved and hand colored maps of Smith’s Island, Washington State and Anacapa Islands, in the Santa Barbara Channel. These are very important maps, being the first known example of the engraving work of James Abbott MacNeill Whistler, who would go on to have a career as one of America's most famous 19th Century Artists. Special Note: Whistler, one of the most influential figures in the 19th-century art world, learned etching while employed in the cartographic section of the U.S. Coast Survey. One of the few known works completed by Whistler during his brief federal service, Sketch of Anacapa Island, exemplifies Whistler's need to add his personal touch to official charts and after he completed this etching in the approved style, he thought it looked dull. Therefore, he added two flocks of gulls sailing gracefully over the rocky headland of Anacapa Island. Condition: Excellent, small verticalfold throughout on right side, horizontal fold bottom, wide margins.
size 9.5 12 image.  $150
SOLD

283California:
Gray’s New Map of California, 1884 - A rare large lithographed and original colored map of California (really two maps with two small insets: The Vicinity of San Francisco, Yosemite Valley, the large maps include the entire state and City of San Francisco. From one of Gray’s later atlases. The California section of the map shows all of the Pacific railroad lines, counties are colored in pastel, the San Francisco section features a very detailed area from Bernal Heights to Black Point in the North, three railroad lines enter the city from the south. This is an extremely hard to find and significant map of California and San Francisco. Condition: Very good, small margins some water staining on left margin edge and yellowing all around on margins with a small tear at top.
size 16 x 26.5 image
$400

 

285California:
Map of Public Surveys in California, 1857 - A large handsome double folio lithograph map with original color showing extensive detail of the topography, survey grids, cities, towns, villages. " The legend: List of 34 private land grants finally confirmed, September 30th, 1857." One of a series of public survey maps, nicely colored and relief shown in hachures, the San Francisco Bay Delta Region is shown with extensive marshes and Owens Lake still exists. Wagner and Mc Guigan engravers, surveyor general J H. Mundeville.
Condition: Very good, multiple folds, small margins, light ageing toning, and light yellowing on folds barely noticeable.
size 30.5 x 36 image. $700
SOLD - ON HOLD

286California:
1891 Wood engraving, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper: The Tour of President Harrison to the Pacific Coast.
16 x 11 in. $60 

288California:
Muriette The Bandit & Where His Treasure was Buried.Newspaper page - The Examiner San Francisco April 6, 1890. James Wall and his search for the Buried Treasure. 3 Full illustrated columns. Also articles Bill Nye on Oakland and Don Ramon Dominquez.
16 x 20 " in. $30