19TH CENTURY CITIES
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Map of the City of Ottawa, Published by A.S. Woodburn. Ottawa.
A.S. Woodburn’s rare 1885 map of Ottawa: one of the earliest acquirable large-scale city plans of Canada’s national capital.
Cartographer(s): A. S. WoodburnPlace/Date: Montreal / 1885$4,800 Add to cart -
Map of Peralta Park, Berkeley, Alameda County, Cal. Subdivided October 1878. M.C. King, C.E. Scale 80 Feet to One Inch. Property of M.B. Curtis.
Land grants, failed endeavors, and a fabulously wealthy stage actor: the story of North Berkeley’s Peralta Park.
Cartographer(s): Schmidt Label & Litho. Co.Place/Date: San Francisco / 1878$2,450 Add to cart -
Sacramento in Californien: Des Auswanderers Hoffnung.
Gold Rush view of old town Sacramento around the time of California’s statehood.
Cartographer(s): J. HessePlace/Date: Germany / ca. 1850$1,250 Add to cart -
San Francisco. from actual Surveys. 1850.
A unique artifact of Gold Rush San Francisco, including one of San Francisco’s most famous buried ships!
Cartographer(s): AnonymousPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1850$49,500 Add to cart -
San Francisco. From California Street. Drawn from a Daguerreotype, the property of Eugene Delessert, Esq.re
Spectacular Gold Rush era view of San Francisco published in Paris.
Cartographer(s): Joseph LemercierPlace/Date: Paris / ca. 1855$8,000 Add to cart -
Straits of Carquines and Vallejo Bay / Anchorage off Sacramento City / Depot of the Pacific Mail Steam Company, Benicia / Vallejo and Mare Island Strait from the U.S. Coast Survey / Anchorage off San Francisco / Anchorage off New York of the Pacific
Gold Rush California’s main harbors: including the state capital of Vallejo, the rapidly expanding city of San Francisco, and New York on the Pacific.
Cartographer(s): Cadwalader RinggoldPlace/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1850$550 Add to cart -
Map of the City of San Jose
Scarce 19th century real estate promotional map of San Jose.
Cartographer(s): Jas. A. Clayton & Co.Place/Date: San Jose / ca. 1888$245 Add to cart -
Plat of the Pueblo Lands of San Francisco finally confirmed to the City Of San Francisco. Surveyed under instructions from the U.S. Surveyor General by F. von Leicht, U. S. Dep. Surv. in December 1883 Containing 17754 36/100 Acres
Von Leicht’s historic 1883 survey confirming the boundaries of San Francisco, including land grants.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1887On Hold Read more
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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
