19TH CENTURY CITIES
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Yerba Buena.
A stunning retrospective of early San Francisco, painted by a highly skilled anonymous artist of America’s Continental School.
Cartographer(s): AnonymousPlace/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1872$10,500 Add to cart -
City of San Francisco and Its Vicinity.
San Francisco transforms into a city.
Cartographer(s): Office of the Coast SurveyPlace/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1853$1,200 Add to cart -
San Francisco Directory Year and Business Guide for 1858: Henry G. Langley Compiler.
The first Langley San Francisco city directory!
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1858$3,400 Add to cart -
Norman’s Plan of New Orleans & Environs. 1849.
Locally published plan of New Orleans, issued three years before the 1852 city charter.
Cartographer(s): Benjamin Moore NormanPlace/Date: New Orleans / 1849$5,500 Add to cart -
Faust’s map of city and county of San Francisco, California.
A beautiful example of Faust’s large-format map of San Francisco.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1901$2,400 Add to cart -
[Seventeen original Taber albumen photographs of California and Oregon]
An extraordinary collection of late 19th-century photographs from America’s West Coast.
Cartographer(s): Isaiah West TaberPlace/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1890$1,500 Add to cart -
Road and Property Map showing the Towns of Stamford and Greenwich Conn. Together with Surrounding Territory Compiled from Actual Surveys, Private Plans & Official Records…
The greatest and most impressive 19th-century map of Connecticut.
Place/Date: New York / 1890$24,500 Add to cart -
San Francisco Water Front prior to April 1851.
The “Forest of Masts” Panorama — The Earliest Known Photograph of San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): Martin BehrmanPlace/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1910$8,500 Add to cart -
Spokane. Washington.
A scarce and gorgeous bird’s-eye-view of Spokane during its heyday as the railroad hub of the Northern Plains.
Cartographer(s): John W. Graham & Co.Place/Date: Spokane, WA / 1905$4,500 Add to cart -
Bird’s Eye View of the City & County of San Francisco, 1868.
A spectacular and rare First Edition of the most iconic late 19th-century view of San Francisco.
Place/Date: San Francisco / [First Edition] 1868$24,500 Add to cart -
San-Francisco, Vue prise d’un point elevé du côté Sud
An Exceedingly Rare Early Gold Rush View of San Francisco. One of Three Known Examples in Full Original Hand Color, Finished With Gouache.
Cartographer(s): Louis Le BretonPlace/Date: Paris / ca. 1850$8,500 Add to cart -
Map no. 3. Salt marsh and tide lands situate in the city and county of San Francisco. To be sold at public auction by order of the Board of Tide Land Commissioners by Talbert & Leet, auctioneers, at their sales rooms no. 526 California Street, San Francisco. Sale to commence Friday Nov. 26th, 1869.
Rare cadastral and Southern Pacific Railroad right-of-way tidal lands map of Mission Bay.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1869$3,400 Add to cart -
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…
1853 United States Coast Survey steel-engraved master sheet map of the San Francisco Peninsula.
Cartographer(s): Office of the Coast SurveyPlace/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1853$2,500 Add to cart -
Official Map Of The City Of San Francisco, California. Published by Josiah J. LeCount…Approved By Geo. R. Turner City & County Surveyor
The definitive Silver Rush plan of a new and expanded San Francisco.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1859$12,500 Add to cart -
The Tables Turned – “You Sabe Him? Kealney Must Go!”
Political satire from one of San Francisco’s first antiquarian booksellers.
Cartographer(s): Isidor Nathan ChoynskiPlace/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1879$575 Add to cart -
Map of the City of Benicia Founded By Mariano G. Vallejo, Thomas O. Larking & Robert Semple 1847 Surveyed & Drawn By Benjamin Barlow City & County Surveyor.
Barlow’s rare and pioneering map of Benicia – the earliest comprehensive plan of one of California’s first state capitals.
Place/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1850$4,400 Add to cart -
Salt Lake City, 1887.
The Bustling New Jerusalem of the American West.
Cartographer(s): August GastPlace/Date: St. Louis / 1887$2,900 Add to cart -
The Golden Gate
Possibly the first American view of The Golden Gate ever produced.
Cartographer(s): Thomas & Samuel HardgrovePlace/Date: New York / 1855$1,000 Add to cart -
Map of the Central Park. April 20th 1871
Olmsted and Vaux’s 1871 plan of Central Park.
Place/Date: New York / 1871$1,500 Add to cart -
Holbrook Merrill & Stetson, Stoves, Metals Etc. Cor. of Market & Beale Sts. San Francisco.
A large circa 1881 Bosqui lithograph of an important San Francisco architectural landmark.
Cartographer(s): Bosqui Eng. Co.Place/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1878$1,200 Add to cart -
Map of the Outside Lands of the City and County of San Francisco Showing Reservations Selected for Public Purposes, under the Provisions of Order No. 800
Mapping the Outside Lands – a foundational map for the history of San Francisco.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1868$3,800 Add to cart -
Map of Sutro Heights Lots for Sale by Will E. Fisher and Co. Agents.
An 1893 commercial broadsheet for the real estate development at Sutro Heights – the site of San Francisco landmarks like the Sutro Baths and Cliff House.
Cartographer(s): Bosqui Eng. Co.Place/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1893$650 Add to cart -
5-sheet set showing San Francisco’s post-1906 earthquake water supply [SF’s first fireboat!]
Four technical maps focussing on urban infrastructure and water supply and one engineering blueprint for a new fireboat, together reflecting San Francisco’s coordinated response to the devastation of the 1906 earthquake. With an interesting provenance.
Cartographer(s): Britton & ReyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1908$8,500 Add to cart -
Guide Map of The City of San Francisco compiled from the Official Surveys & Engraved Expressly For Langley’s San Francisco Directory 1884
Langley’s splendid city directory plan: one of the most successful pre-1906 maps of San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): Henry G. LangleyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1884$1,400 Add to cart -
Plan of London in the reign of Queen Elisabeth.
Attractive 1835 city plan of Elizabethan London.
Place/Date: London / ca. 1835$625 Add to cart
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Birdseye View of San Francisco and Surrounding Country.
Goddard’s rare and remarkable view of San Francisco, Marin, and the East Bay.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1880Read more -
City of San Francisco and its Vicinity.
A cornerstone map for the historical cartography of San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): Office of the Coast SurveyPlace/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1859Read more -
Official Map of Chinatown in San Francisco.
One of the great thematic maps of a 19th-century American city.
Cartographer(s): B. Farwell, John E. Kunklet, E. B. Pond; A.L. Bancroft & Co.Place/Date: San Francisco / 1885Read more -
Guide Map of San Francisco and Side Trips in California.
A Southern Pacific California guide and San Francisco map that we have never seen before.
Cartographer(s): Southern Pacific RailroadPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1897Read more -
City of San Francisco and its Vicinity.
A cornerstone map for the historical cartography of San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): Office of the Coast SurveyPlace/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1859Read more -
Mission Dolores, San Francisco – 1860, from the Potrero Nuevo
The first printed view of San Francisco’s Mission District.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1866Read more -
San Antonio Creek watershed and Oakland.
One of the first maps of Oakland, with Alameda as a peninsula.
Place/Date: New York / 1857Read more -
Lone Mountain Cemetery, San Francisco.
A true San Francisco rarity: Gifford and Nagel’s early view of Lone Mountain and the ‘Outside Lands.’
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1866Read more -
[With Municipal Report] Montgomery Avenue: Showing the land condemned, buildings destroyed, frontage on each block, profile of grade, and district to be assessed.
The changing face of a growing city: the creation map for Columbus Avenue, bound in its original municipal report.
Cartographer(s): Britton & ReyPlace/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1872Read more -
Bird’s Eye View of the City of Petaluma, Sonoma County, California.
One of the earliest views of Petaluma.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1871Read more -
Bancroft’s Official Guide Map Of City And County Of San Francisco…1873.
Bancroft’s iconic 1873 Blue-Line Map of San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): The Bancroft CompanyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1873Read more -
Whitney’s Map Of Seattle And Environs, Washington. Compiled From Official Records By O.P. Anderson And Co. Engineers and Draughtsmen. 1890.
Whitney’s iconic 1890 map of Seattle: the Emerald City in its infancy following Washington statehood.
Place/Date: Seattle / 1890Read more -
Official Map of Chinatown in San Francisco.
One of the great thematic maps of a 19th-century American city.
Cartographer(s): B. Farwell, John E. Kunklet, E. B. Pond; A.L. Bancroft & Co.Place/Date: San Francisco / 1885Read more -
View of San Francisco, Formerly Yerba Buena, In 1846-7 Before the Discovery of Gold
San Francisco Before Gold: the town of Yerba Buena as it appeared in March 1847, shortly after its capture by the U.S.S. Portsmouth.
Cartographer(s): Bosqui Eng. Co.Place/Date: San Francisco / 1884Read more -
The only correct & fully complete map of San Francisco
1853 Zakreski San Francisco letter sheet map with personal notes.
Cartographer(s): Alexander ZakreskiPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1853Read more -
Map Showing Golden Gate Park, the Avenue and Buena Vista Park. Scale 400 ft. to 1 inch.
This lovely early example of Britton & Rey’s iconic plan of Golden Gate Park is an anchor of San Franciscan identity: It speaks to us about origins and progress, urban renewal and civil rights, and is ultimately a testimony to the city’s grand but turbulent history.
Cartographer(s): Britton & ReyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1893Read more -
Faust’s Map of the City and County of San Francisco, California
Faust’s late-19th century map of San Francisco.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1890Read more -
Report on a plan for San Francisco by Daniel H. Burnham. Assisted by Edward H. Bennett. Presented to the Mayor and Board of Supervisors by the Association for the Improvement and Adornment of San Francisco.
Daniel Burnham’s plan to reshape San Francisco, resurrected after the 1906 earthquake but scrapped after backlash from property owners.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1905Read more -
San Francisco 1849, Drawn on the Spot by Henry Firks
Henry Firks’ iconic birds-eye-view of San Francisco at the height of the Gold Rush.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1886Read more -
Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem. This Survey Was Made In The Years 1864-5 By Captain Charles W. Wilson R.E. and a Party of Royal Engineers From The Ordinance Survey. Under The Direction of Colonel Sir Henry James, R.E. F.R.S. & C. Director of the Ordnance Survey.
The first Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem and environs.
Cartographer(s): Ordinance Survey OfficePlace/Date: London / 1865Read more -
Plan De Jerusalem Ancienne & Moderne
Plan of the Old City of Jerusalem by the Ottoman city’s official architect and engineer.
Cartographer(s): Ermete PierottiPlace/Date: Paris / 1860Read more -
Britton & Rey’s Guide Map of the City of San Francisco. 1887. Copyright. (with) Index to Street Guide Map of San Francisco, Cal. by Britton & Rey
Unusual 1887 Britton & Rey map of San Francisco with a rare depiction of the Bay District Racing Track.
Cartographer(s): Britton & ReyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1887Read more -
Bancroft’s Map of the Cable Railway System and Connections of San Francisco. 1890.
A late 19th century Cable Railway map with early bike shop advertisement.
Cartographer(s): The Bancroft CompanyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1890Read more -
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.
Eddy’s 1849 map — One of the earliest obtainable maps of San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): William EddyPlace/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1850Read more -
Map of Oakland and vicinity: Alameda, Berkeley, Fruitvale and Piedmont.
The most spectacular early map of the East Bay that we have ever seen, plotting everything from shell mounds to railroads to real estate holdings and more.
Place/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1892Read more -
Piano Regolatore Città di Roma
Fine 19th century cadastral map of Rome — indicates the proposed area of the Victor Emmanuel II National Monument.
Cartographer(s): Ing. E. ZanottiPlace/Date: Rome / 1883Read more -
Map of Boston and Vicinity
An excellent late 19th century large-format city plan of Boston.
Cartographer(s): George H. WalkerPlace/Date: Boston / 1893Read more -
Map of the State of California. Compiled from the most recent surveys and explorations…
1860 map of California with a large bird’s-eye-view of post Gold Rush San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): VincentPlace/Date: Paris / 1860Read more -
Salt Lake City, 1887
1887 bird’s-eye-view lithograph of Salt Lake City.
Place/Date: Salt Lake City / 1887Read more -
Map of the Old Saucelito Land and Dry Dock Co.’s Lands Showing the Property for Sale at Auction By Maurice Dore & Co. Auctioneers Tuesday July 22nd 1873
Rare 1873 Sausalito property map with old town spelling.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1873Read more
