March 2025 California Catalog

Out of stock
Birds Eye View of the City of Sacramento State Capital of a California.
Augustus Koch’s rare and monumental 1870 view of Sacramento.
Cartographer(s): Augustus Koch
Date: 1870
Place: San Francisco
Portola Festival. San Francisco Oct. 22-25, 1913.
Original artwork for the 1913 Portola Festival – a unique piece of San Franciscana.
$8,500
Cartographer(s): Anonymous
Date: 1913
Place: San Francisco
Map of Palm Springs and Palm Valley Colony Lands / Palm Springs! On the Line of the S.P.R.R. in San Diego County
The Earliest Map of Palm Springs!
$7,500
Cartographer(s): Britton & Rey, Southern Pacific Railroad
Date: 1887
Place: San Francisco
La Californie ou Nouvelle Caroline, Teatro De Los Trabajos Apostolicos De La Compa. E. Jesus En La America Septe...
[Old Color] The largest cartographic depiction of the island of California ever made.
$7,500
Cartographer(s): Nicholas de Fer
Date: 1720
Place: Paris
New Grapho-Politico Map of the State of California, Compiled from the latest and most authentic official and special surveys.
Whitaker & Ray’s monumental physiographic wall map of California with eight thematic insets.
$7,500
Cartographer(s): Whitaker & Ray Co.
Date: 1902
Place: San Francisco
Out of stock
Pasadena Tract Book.
An extremely rare tract book of Pasadena and Altadena, with numerous unrecorded pasted-in extra maps.
Cartographer(s): Albert G. Thurston
Date: 1927
Place: Pasadena, CA
Map of the County of San Mateo California Compiled from the County Records by Davenport Bromfield, Civil Engineer, Ex-County Surveyor, 1910.
Before Silicon Valley: a stunning, large-scale 1910 map of San Mateo County.
$6,500
Cartographer(s): Davenport Bromfield, Britton & Rey
Date: 1910
Place: San Francisco
Assessment List Contra Costa County Sup. Dist. 2 Moraga Lafayette Walnut Creek & Alamo.
Late 19th-century assessment with two fold-out maps, including a very early map of Walnut Creek.
$4,500
Cartographer(s): California State Board of Equalization
Date: 1895
Place: Not listed
Map of the City of Vallejo, terminus of the Napa Valley, Sonoma Valley and California Pacific Railroad.
The first official town plan of Vallejo.
$4,500
Cartographer(s): E.H. Rowe, Britton & Rey
Date: 1868
Place: San Francisco
Out of stock
Bird's Eye View of the City of Petaluma, Sonoma County, California.
One of the earliest views of Petaluma.
Cartographer(s): Augustus Koch, Britton & Rey
Date: 1871
Place: San Francisco
Out of stock
California.
A unique, hand-drawn, and watercolored mid-century pictorial map of California.
Cartographer(s): R.C. Hicks
Date: 1940
Place: Not listed
Out of stock
Map of the City of San Jose [manuscript].
A monumental manuscript map of San Jose, the most comprehensive map of the city we have ever seen.
Cartographer(s): Chief Engineer's Office
Date: 1917
Place: San Francisco
[Bay Area Road Atlas] Auto Roads of San Francisco and Oakland to Monterey and Santa Cruz.
A pioneering road atlas covering the Bay Area and Monterey.
$2,800
Cartographer(s): C.J. Gray & Co.
Date: 1908
Place: Los Angeles
Map of Coronado Beach. San Diego, California.
The seldom seen large-format edition of Rand McNally’s map of Coronado Beach, San Diego.
$2,800
Cartographer(s): Rand, McNally & Co.
Date: 1887
Place: Chicago
Mare Del Sud detto altrimenti Mare Pacifico.
An excellent example of Coronelli’s Pacific Ocean with California as an Island.
$2,500
Cartographer(s): Vincenzo Coronelli
Date: 1691
Place: Venice
Bird's-eye-view of ruins of San Francisco from captive airship, 600 feet above Folsom between Fifth and Sixth Sts.
Large, dramatic panoramic photograph surveying the devastation of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.
$2,400
Cartographer(s): George Lawrence
Date: 1906
Place: Chicago
Bancroft’s Official Guide Map of the City and County of San Francisco, Compiled from Official Maps in Surveyor’s Office.
One of the most iconic 19th-century maps of San Francisco.
$2,200
Cartographer(s): The Bancroft Company
Date: 1877
Place: San Francisco
Street Map of Beverly Hills and Key Map to the Homes of the Motion Picture Stars and Other Celebrities.
Beverly Hills’ First Star Homes Map?
$1,900
Cartographer(s): George E. Read, Inc.
Date: 1926
Place: Beverly Hills, Calif.
Hollywood.Hollywood.
A superb pictorial map of Hollywood, California.
$1,800
Cartographer(s): Ranlee Publishing Inc.
Date: 1985
Place: Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Hollywoodland, Tracts No. 6450 9367 9594.
The birth of one of L.A.’s most iconic neighborhoods.
$1,800
Cartographer(s): Sidney H. Woodruff, Engineering Service Corp.
Date: 1923
Place: Los Angeles
Crocker's Guide Map of the City of San Francisco.
A fantastic pre-1906 earthquake map of San Francisco.
$1,600
Cartographer(s): H. S. Crocker Company, Henry G. Langley
Date: 1901
Place: San Francisco
[Central Valley Agricultural Photo Album].
A unique collection of early 20th-century photographs of the Central Valley.
$1,400
Cartographer(s): Anonymous
Date: 1915
Place: Not listed
RECONNAISSANCE OF THE WESTERN COAST OF THE UNITED STATES MIDDLE SHEET FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO UMPQUAH RIVERRECONNAISSANCE OF THE WESTERN COAST OF THE UNITED STATES MIDDLE SHEET FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO UMPQUAH RIVER
Eminent geographer and historian George Davidson tracks the West Coast voyage of Sebastian Vizcaino.
$1,400
Cartographer(s): Office of the Coast Survey
Date: 1854
Place: Washington, D.C.
Map of the City of Stockton.
A rare Dakin map of Stockton at the end of the 19th century.
$1,250
Cartographer(s): Dakin Publishing Company
Date: 1895
Place: San Francisco
Out of stock
Official Map of the American River in Sacramento County, California.
Fascinating manuscript map of the American River capturing the Sacramento Valley from Sacramento to Folsom.
Cartographer(s): Thomas Barbour
Date: 1902
Place: San Francisco
Boulevard Gardens. Quarter Acre Villa Lots.
North Berkeley’s Golden Past: a rare 1907 view of Boulevard Gardens.
$1,200
Cartographer(s): Schmidt-Skilling Co., Charles Green
Date: 1907
Place: Oakland
Map of Coronado Beach San Diego, California.
Early 1887 Promotional Broadside for the Hotel Del Coronado.
$1,200
Cartographer(s): Rand, McNally & Co.
Date: 1887
Place: Chicago
Panoramic photograph of Crockett, CA, Carquinez Bridge, California and Hawaiian Sugar CompanyPanoramic photograph of Crockett, CA, Carquinez Bridge, California and Hawaiian Sugar Company
A rare panorama of old Carquinez bridge and the Crockett sugar factory.
$1,200
Cartographer(s): Morton & Co.
Date: 1930
Place: San Francisco
A Map for the City of Seattle and adjacent territory accompanying a report of MUNICIPAL PLANS COMMISSION.
The famous ‘Bogue Plan’ of Seattle: an ambitious urban design for the city and environs from 1911.
$1,200
Cartographer(s): Virgil G. Bogue, Engineer, Tucker Hanford Co.
Date: 1911
Place: Seattle
Out of stock
Upside's Ultimate Millennium Party - Sponsored by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.
[Silicon Valley History] A time capsule of the dot-com era.
Cartographer(s): David Bunnell, Ron Barber, Upside Media, Inc.
Date: 2000
Place: Not listed
Out of stock
Map of Encino City Being Encino Tract.
A rare early promotional tract map of Encino City, San Fernando Valley.
Cartographer(s): William Hamilton Hay
Date: 1922
Place: Los Angeles
East Piedmont Heights.
[Housing Discrimination] Promotional map for East Piedmont Heights with implicit racial restrictions.
$975
Cartographer(s): Wickham Havens Inc., William H. Bull
Date: 1907
Place: Oakland
St. Francis Wood: San Francisco’s Residence Park.
A rare circa 1912 cadastral plan of the nascent San Francisco neighborhood of St. Francis Wood.
$875
Cartographer(s): Mason-McDuffie Co.
Date: 1912
Place: San Francisco
Ferry Boat San Pablo S.F. & S.J. Ry. Co. / Profile & Salon Deck of San Francisco Ferry Boat.
A unique manuscript blueprint for the Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company’s San Pablo Ferry.
$775
Cartographer(s): Frank B. King
Date: 1901
Place: Los Angeles
Soil Map. California. Reconnaisance Survey -- San Francisco Bay Sheet.
A massive 1914 San Francisco Bay Area Department of Agriculture Soil Map.
$750
Cartographer(s): U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Soils
Date: 1914
Place: New York
Out of stock
Hawaii Hawaiian Islands.
Documenting the Privatization of Land in Hawaiʻi.
Cartographer(s): Julius Bien & Co.
Date: 1901
Place: New York
Map of the Town of Kellogg. Knight's Valley. Napa & Sonoma Counties, California.
A scarce 1875 Britton & Rey lot sale map of Kellogg, California.
$725
Cartographer(s): Britton & Rey
Date: 1875
Place: San Francisco
Map of Eureka, Humboldt Bay.
With a hand-written annotation by J.N. Lentell, one of the most important surveyors of 19th-century California.
$675
Cartographer(s): J.N. Lentell, James Talbot Ryan
Date: 1886
Place: Eureka, CA
[Redwood City] Oakleigh Park.
A seemingly unrecorded brochure for Oakleigh Park in Redwood City, complete with a bird’s-eye-view.
$650
Cartographer(s): Oakleigh Park Co.
Date: 1910
Place: San Francisco
Amended Map of Loleta.
A unique manuscript map of Loleta by famous Humboldt County surveyor Frank Herrick.
$650
Cartographer(s): Frank Ephraim Herrick
Date: 1899
Place: Eureka
Properties in Crocker Tracts, Crocker Terrace and Crocker Oaks.
Edward Prather’s 1914 cadastral map of the Crocker Highlands development in Oakland.
$650
Cartographer(s): Wickham Havens Inc., Edward C. Prather
Date: 1914
Place: Oakland
[Visitacion Valley SF] Abstract of Title and List of Incumbrances on Reis Tract part Visitacion Rancho.
Rare Abstract of Title for San Francisco’s Reis Tract, with an early and uncertified cadastral map.
$650
Cartographer(s): Ferdinand Reis
Date: 1904
Place: San Francisco
Highland Park.
An 1893 Highland Park auction map with house vignettes.
$475
Cartographer(s): Edward Carthcart "E.C." Sessions
Date: 1893
Place: Oakland
Emeryville Industrial Tract.
An early promotional map of Emeryville.
$400
Cartographer(s): Baldwin & Howell
Date: 1920
Place: San Francisco