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Title: Bancroft's Official Guide Map of City and County of San Francisco, Compiled from Official Maps in Surveyor's Office Author: Bancroft, Albert Little Place: San Francisco Publisher: A.L. Bancroft & Co. Date: 1877 Description: Lithographed map, partially hand-colored. 60.5x74.4 cm (23¾x29¼"), folding into gilt-lettered blindstamped cloth covers 16x11 cm (6¼x4¼"). An exceptional copy of this significant folding map of San Francisco, with Reference List at bottom giving the coordinates of hundreds locations of note; inset "Skeleton Map Showing the Relative position of San Francisco to the Surrounding Country" in the Bay at right. Advertising leaf mounted on inside of front cover for Bancroft's books and maps. Further Notes from the Files of Warren Heckrotte Full title: Bancroft's Official Guide Map of City and County of San Francisco, Compiled from Official Maps in Surveyor's Office Published by A. L. Bancroft & Co. Bookseller, Stationers, Importers and Publishers Printers, Lithographers, Engravers Binders, Blank Book Makers, Etc. San Francisco, Cal. 1877 | Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1877, by A. L. Bancroft & Company, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.C. Provenance: Unrecorded, 3/88 References: Phillips Maps, p 777 (also lists 1873 ed.). Rowell lists an 1872 ed. Lot Amendments Condition: Map with a few very small and unobtrusive brown spots, still fine, bright and crisp. Item number: 265089