Title: Report of the Secretary of the Interior, Communicating a Copy of the Report of William Carey Jones, Special Agent to Examine the Subject of Land Titles in California Author: Jones, William Carey Place: [Washington] Publisher: Date: 1851 Description: 136 pp. Folding lithograph map laid in. (8vo), later brown cloth. Second Issue. 31st Congress, 1st Session. Executive Document No. 18. Includes the rare folding map of gold rush era San Francisco titled: "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. S.W. Higgins Draftn. Copied by P.M. McGill..." This copy has three small plots with hand-colored outlines. The map measures 62.5x48.5 cm. (24½x19"). This is the second printed map of San Francisco, lithographed in Washington, preceded by a slightly different version based on the same survey by Eddy and lithographed in New York. Heckrotte, Preliminary List of Maps of San Francisco, 2; Howes J248; Phillips, Maps, p.776. Lot Amendments Condition: Foxing to text volume; map creased from folding, some loss of border line at lower left; both very good or better. Item number: 220854
Title: Report of the Secretary of the Interior, Communicating a Copy of the Report of William Carey Jones, Special Agent to Examine the Subject of Land Titles in California Author: Jones, William Carey Place: [Washington] Publisher: Date: 1851 Description: 136 pp. Folding lithograph map laid in. (8vo), later brown cloth. Second Issue. 31st Congress, 1st Session. Executive Document No. 18. Includes the rare folding map of gold rush era San Francisco titled: "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. S.W. Higgins Draftn. Copied by P.M. McGill..." This copy has three small plots with hand-colored outlines. The map measures 62.5x48.5 cm. (24½x19"). This is the second printed map of San Francisco, lithographed in Washington, preceded by a slightly different version based on the same survey by Eddy and lithographed in New York. Heckrotte, Preliminary List of Maps of San Francisco, 2; Howes J248; Phillips, Maps, p.776. Lot Amendments Condition: Foxing to text volume; map creased from folding, some loss of border line at lower left; both very good or better. Item number: 220854
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