SAN FRANCISCO / CALIFORNIA

San Francisco. from actual Surveys. 1850.San Francisco. from actual Surveys. 1850.
A unique artifact of Gold Rush San Francisco, including one of San Francisco’s most famous buried ships!…
$75,000
Cartographer(s): Anonymous
Date: 1850
Place: San Francisco
The "Chevalier" Commercial, Pictorial and Tourist Map of San Francisco From Latest U.S. Gov. and Official Surveys.
The greatest San Francisco map ever made….
$49,500
Cartographer(s): August Chevalier
Date: 1911
Place: San Francisco
[Carl Borg Oil Painting] "Spring Day, California."
A rare modernist painting of the Santa Barbara Hills….
$19,000
Cartographer(s): Carl Oscar Borg
Date: 1943
Place: Gothenburg, Sweden
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….
$12,500
Cartographer(s): Josiah J. LeCount, Britton & Rey
Date: 1859
Place: San Francisco
Artistic Homes of California.
The most extensive collection of pre-1906 Bay Area architectural masterpieces….
$9,500
Cartographer(s): Frederick Marriott, Britton & Rey
Date: 1888
Place: San Francisco
[Oil Painting of Lake Merritt, Oakland]
The earliest known view of Oakland’s Lake Merritt….
$8,500
Cartographer(s): F. Schmidt
Date: 1878
Place: Oakland
Yerba Buena.
A stunning retrospective of early San Francisco, painted by a highly skilled anonymous artist of America’s Continental School….
$8,500
Cartographer(s): Anonymous
Date: 1872
Place: San Francisco
San Francisco. From California Street. Drawn from a Daguerreotype, the property of Eugene Delessert, Esq.reSan 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….
$8,500
Cartographer(s): Imprimerie Lemercier
Date: 1855
Place: Paris
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….
$7,200
Cartographer(s): Whitaker & Ray Co.
Date: 1902
Place: San Francisco
Carta prima generale d'America dell'India Occidentale e Mare del Zur.Carta prima generale d'America dell'India Occidentale e Mare del Zur.
The earliest published sea chart to focus on the California coast!…
$7,000
Cartographer(s): Sir Robert Dudley
Date: 1648
Place: Florence
Map of the Mining Region of California 1855. Drawn and Compiled by Geo. H. BakerMap of the Mining Region of California 1855. Drawn and Compiled by Geo. H. Baker
George Holbrook Baker’s 1855 letter sheet mining map of northern California….
$6,500
Cartographer(s): George Holbrook Baker
Date: 1855
Place: Sacramento
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….
$6,500
Cartographer(s): Britton & Rey, Benjamin W. Barlow
Date: 1850
Place: San Francisco
Portola Festival. San Francisco Oct. 22-25, 1913.
Original artwork for the 1913 Portola Festival – a unique piece of San Franciscana….
$6,500
Cartographer(s): Anonymous
Date: 1913
Place: San Francisco
San Francisco [June] 1849.
Henry Firks’ iconic birds-eye-view of San Francisco at the height of the Gold Rush….
$4,800
Cartographer(s): Henry Firks, Schmidt Label & Litho. Co.
Date: 1886
Place: San Francisco
[SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE PHOTO ALBUM]
A dramatic collection of photographs taken during and just after the devastating events of April 18, 1906….
$4,500
Cartographer(s): W. J. Street
Date: 1906
Place: San Francisco
U.S. Navy Yard. At Mare Island, California.U.S. Navy Yard. At Mare Island, California.
Early view of the U.S. Navy Yard at Mare Island, with Marin and Mount Tamalpais in the background….
$4,500
Cartographer(s): Britton & Rey, J.B. Dunlap
Date: 1856
Place: San Francisco
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
Map of Sacramento River and Bay of San Pablo with Harbour of San Francisco by the U.S. Ex. Ex. 1841.
Extremely rare 1841/1858 Wilkes U.S. Exploring Expedition Map of the Sacramento River and San Francisco Harbor….
$4,500
Cartographer(s): Charles Wilkes, Sherman & Smith
Date: 1858
Place: New York
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
5-sheet set showing San Francisco's post-1906 earthquake water supply [SF's first fireboat!]5-sheet set showing San Francisco's post-1906 earthquake water supply [SF's first fireboat!]
Four 1908 technical San Francisco maps of urban infrastructure and water supply, and one engineering blueprint for a new fireboat. With an interesting provenance….
$4,500
Cartographer(s): Britton & Rey
Date: 1908
Place: San Francisco
The Independent Gold Hunter on His Way to California. I Neither Borrow Nor Lend.
The most iconic California Gold Rush lithograph….
$3,900
Cartographer(s): Nathaniel Currier & James Ives
Date: 1849
Place: New York
Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis per Antonium de Herrera.Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis per Antonium de Herrera.
The first map to show California as an island!…
$3,600
Cartographer(s): Michiel Colijn
Date: 1622
Place: Amsterdam
Thomas Bros Block Book of Burlingame and Hillsborough.
Rare c. 1940 Thomas Bros. block book mapping Hillsborough and Burlingame’s elite Bay Area estates and landowners….
$3,500
Cartographer(s): Thomas Bros.
Date: 1940
Place: Oakland or San Francisco
Map of San Francisco Showing Principal Streets and Places of Interest.
Roaring Twenties Pictorial Map of San Francisco….
$3,500
Cartographer(s): Harrison Godwin, Schmidt Label & Litho. Co.
Date: 1927
Place: San Francisco
[1906 EARTHQUAKE PANORAMA - FINANCIAL DISTRICT]
An urban panorama unlike any other: documentation of the devastation caused by the 1906 earthquake and fire….
$3,400
Cartographer(s): Pillsbury Picture Co.
Date: 1906
Place: San Francisco
The Resources of Vallejo: A series of articles, reprinted from the Solano County Advertiser, 1868-69
An early promotional booklet on Vallejo with two very rare folding maps….
$3,200
Cartographer(s): John Shertzer Hittel
Date: 1869
Place: Vallejo
Grand Hotel, Johnson & Co., Proprietors, San Francisco, California.
Carleton Watkins mammoth plate of San Francisco’s Grand Hotel (CEW 382)….
$3,200
Cartographer(s): Carleton E. Watkins
Date: 1874
Place: San Francisco
Preliminary Geologic and Structural Map of the Lompoc and Guadalupe Quadrangles, California Including a Large Part of the Santa Maria Oil District.
A rare remnant from the early days of the California Oil Industry, from the collection of esteemed geologist Jorgen O. Nomland….
$3,000
Cartographer(s): U.S. Geological Survey, Ralph Arnold
Date: 1907
Place: Washington, D.C.
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, 507 Mission St. San Francisco.
Chevalier’s famous map of San Francisco for the 1915 Exposition with original booklet….
$2,900
Cartographer(s): August Chevalier
Date: 1915
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
Tamalpais Land and Water Company Map No. 5 showing Eastland and Millwood, Marin County, California.
Early pre-Mill Valley cadastral map of Eastland and Millwood, Marin County….
$2,800
Cartographer(s): A.D. Avery
Date: 1897
Place: San Francisco
South San Francisco. Issued By The South San Francisco Land & Improvement Co.South San Francisco. Issued By The South San Francisco Land & Improvement Co.
Large-format circa 1892 Rand McNally promoting the development of South San Francisco….
$2,600
Cartographer(s): South San Francisco Land & Improvement Co., Rand, McNally & Co.
Date: 1892
Place: Chicago
San Francisco Directory Year and Business Guide for 1858: Henry G. Langley Compiler.
The first Langley San Francisco city directory!…
$2,400
Cartographer(s): Henry G. Langley, Valentine & Co.
Date: 1858
Place: San Francisco
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
Reconnaissance of the Western Coast of the United States from San Francisco to Umpquah River [&] Voyages of Discovery and Exploration on the Northwest Coast of America from 1539 to 1603.
Two works linked to historian George Davidson — an annotated Coast Survey chart and a proof copy of his 1887 report on early Pacific Coast exploration….
$2,400
Cartographer(s): George Davidson
Date: 1887
Place: Washington, D.C.
San Francisco Oz by the BaySan Francisco Oz by the Bay
Zell-Breier’s whimsical pictorial map of San Francisco in the 1980s….
$2,400
Cartographer(s): City Graphics of America, Inc., Robert Zell-Breier
Date: 1989
Place: Fremont
Central Valley Project. Annual History for 1949. Delta District.
A well-illustrated Central Valley California water-management system report, including many maps, charts, graphs, and original photographs….
$2,400
Cartographer(s): United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation
Date: 1950
Place: Stockton, CA
Yosemite.
A stunning bird’s-eye-view of Yosemite National Park by one of the most important innovators of ‘natural cartography’ in the 20th century….
$2,400
Cartographer(s): Heinrich Berann
Date: 1988
Place: Washington, D.C.
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. 800Map 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….
$2,400
Cartographer(s): Committee on Outside Lands of Board of Supervisors, Britton & Rey
Date: 1868
Place: San Francisco
Temporary Telephone Directory with Supplement, San Francisco May 12, 1906
The first 1906 San Francisco Temporary Telephone Directory – with rare extra supplement!…
$2,200
Cartographer(s): Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Co.
Date: 1906
Place: San Francisco
[Panoramic Photograph] Oakland, California 1000 ft. elevation.
Spectacular 1908 panoramic aerial photograph of Oakland documenting the city’s rapid growth after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake….
$2,200
Cartographer(s): R.J. Waters Company
Date: 1908
Place: San Francisco
City of San Francisco and its Vicinity.
A cornerstone map for the historical cartography of San Francisco….
$2,200
Cartographer(s): Office of the Coast Survey
Date: 1859
Place: Washington, D. C.
Map of Oakland, Berkeley, and Alameda.
A fascinating and highly-detailed 1878 map of the East Bay….
$2,200
Cartographer(s): William J. Dingee, Malcolm G. King, Woodward & Taggart
Date: 1878
Place: San Francisco
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
Map of California, Oregon, Texas, and the territories adjoining, with routes &c.
Colton’s iconic map of the West, with California Gold region and extended Texas borders….
$1,900
Cartographer(s): The Colton Mapmaking Company
Date: 1849
Place: New York
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...
Hand-colored 1853 United States Coast Survey master sheet map of the San Francisco Peninsula….
$1,900
Cartographer(s): Office of the Coast Survey
Date: 1853
Place: Washington, D.C.
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.
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.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….
$1,800
Cartographer(s): Schmidt Label & Litho. Co.
Date: 1878
Place: San Francisco
Hollywood.Hollywood.
A superb pictorial map of Hollywood, California….
$1,800
Cartographer(s): Ranlee Publishing Inc.
Date: 1985
Place: Englewood Cliffs, NJ
[Panoramic Photograph] Fresno. 1000 ft Elevation.
1910 R.J. Waters panoramic aerial photo of Fresno, CA….
$1,800
Cartographer(s): R.J. Waters Company
Date: 1910
Place: San Francisco
The Castro, San FranciscoThe Castro, San Francisco
A rare poster map of unknown origin depicting San Francisco’s iconic Castro District in the mid-1980s….
$1,800
Cartographer(s): Graham Bruce
Date: 1985
Place: San Francisco
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
California.
Jo Mora’s iconic 1945 map of California….
$1,600
Cartographer(s): Jo Mora
Date: 1945
Place: Carmel-By-The-Sea
נמל סן פרנסיסקו איפה מתחיל המזרח הרחוק [Port of San Francisco Where the Far East Begins].
Stylized Hebrew Version!…
$1,600
Cartographer(s): Port of San Francisco, Waffoner
Date: 1984
Place: San Francisco
Allen Springs. Lake Co. Cal.
“A fine summer resort for tourists and invalids”…
$1,600
Cartographer(s): Chris Jorgensen
Date: 1890
Place: San Francisco
Bartlett Springs. Lake Co. Cal.
Jorhensen’s very scarce view of Bartlett Springs, CA….
$1,600
Cartographer(s): Chris Jorgensen
Date: 1890
Place: San Francisco
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
Bird's Eye View of the Famous Santa Clara Valley Looking Southerly from San FranciscoBird's Eye View of the Famous Santa Clara Valley Looking Southerly from San Francisco
A rare and dramatic bird’s-eye-view of Santa Clara Valley….
$1,600
Cartographer(s): Britton & Rey
Date: 1886
Place: San Francisco
Johnny Carson Welcomes You to Beautiful Downtown Burbank.
The Running Joke Became a Real Place — 1981 Pictorial Map of Johnny Carson Welcomes You to Beautiful Downtown Burbank….
$1,600
Cartographer(s): Jack Paul Miller
Date: 1981
Place: Burbank
Map of South San Francisco, San Mateo County, California.
A large-format urban plan of South San Francisco….
$1,600
Cartographer(s): Punnett Brothers, South San Francisco Land & Improvement Co., Halpin Lithograph Company
Date: 1916
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
Guide Map of The City of San Francisco compiled from the Official Surveys & Engraved Expressly For Langley's San Francisco Directory 1884Guide 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….
$1,400
Cartographer(s): Henry G. Langley
Date: 1884
Place: San Francisco
Map of Mary R. Smith's Cottages.
Rare 1907 map of Mary Smith’s East Oakland orphanage, a landmark of early Bay Area philanthropy….
$1,400
Cartographer(s): Revilo Frederick Morton
Date: 1907
Place: Berkeley, CA
Album of photographs of commercial and residential properties in Berkeley, California.
A fascinating documentation of Berkeley in the 1930s….
$1,250
Cartographer(s): Not listed
Date: 1930
Place: Berkeley, CA
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
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
Map of the United States as Californians See It.
The epitome of a new genre of comedic cartography that developed following the end of World War II….
$1,200
Cartographer(s): Oren Arnold
Date: 1947
Place: Riverside, CA
The Golden Gate.The Golden Gate.
Possibly the first American view of The Golden Gate ever produced….
$1,200
Cartographer(s): Thomas & Samuel Hardgrove
Date: 1855
Place: New York
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
San Francisco's Welcome to Gen. Grant. September 20, 1879.
An unrecorded photographic commemoration of Ulysses S. Grant’s 1879 visit to San Francisco….
$1,200
Cartographer(s): Bradley and Rulofson
Date: 1879
Place: San Francisco
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
Plan du Port de St. François, Situé su la côte de la Californie Septentrionale.
The world’s first detailed look at San Francisco….
$975
Cartographer(s): La Pérouse, Jean François de Galaup de
Date: 1797
Place: Paris
Holbrook Merrill & Stetson, Stoves, Metals Etc. Cor. of Market & Beale Sts. San Francisco.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….
$900
Cartographer(s): Bosqui Eng. Co.
Date: 1878
Place: San Francisco
San Francisco Bay Area Port Facilities.
A rare and splendid mid-century bird’s-eye-view highlighting maritime infrastructure in the Bay Area….
$900
Cartographer(s): Marine Exchange, Recorder-Sunset Press
Date: 1954
Place: San Francisco
[Yerba Buena Island Panoramic Photograph]
A scarce ca. 1909 panoramic photograph of the U.S. Naval Training Station on Yerba Buena Island….
$875
Cartographer(s): F. W. Metzgar
Date: 1909
Place: San Francisco
Flag Map of California [Signed in pencil by W.J. Goodacre]Flag Map of California [Signed in pencil by W.J. Goodacre]
Goodacre’s wonderful flag map of California, signed by the mapmaker….
$875
Cartographer(s): WJ Goodacre
Date: 1936
Place: Santa Barbara, CA
Map of the Ocean Shore Lands. Sutro Baths & Museum Sutro Heights.
A large Britton & Rey cartographic advertisement for Sutro’s shore-lands….
$875
Cartographer(s): Britton & Rey
Date: 1912
Place: San Francisco
Japanese evacuation from the West Coast, 1942: Final Report.
A chronicle of one of the most infamous events in American history….
$775
Cartographer(s): United States Government Printing Office
Date: 1943
Place: Washington, D.C.
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
A New Map of the State of California, the Territories of Oregon & Utah...
Promoting California and the Gold Rush to a Receptive Audience….
$675
Cartographer(s): Joseph Meyer
Date: 1852
Place: Hildburghausen
[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
Home Federal Country. Eureka! The Golden State. California.
Probably the best pictorial map of California from the early 1970s….
$525
Cartographer(s): Darrel Wayne 'Bunky' Millsap
Date: 1973
Place: Not listed