Heading: (California - San Francisco Bay Area)
Author: California, State Geological Survey
Title: Map of the Region Adjacent to the Bay of San Francisco...
Place Published: [n.p.]
Publisher:
Date Published: 1873
Description:

Lithographed map on thin paper, hand-colored in outline, one of two sheets. 57x87 cm (22?x34?").

This is the Northern half of a superbly lithographed map of the San Francisco Bay Area, the lithography by Julius Bien. Warren Heckrotte comments that "The map extends north to south from Gilroy to a little north of Napa and west to east from a little west of Bolinas to Mt. Hamilton. Land grant Ranchos are shown. This is a beautiful map. This was first published in 1867; revised in 1868."

Full title: State Geological Survey of California J.D. Whitney, State Geologist. Map of the Region Adjacent to the Bay of San Francisco. Scale 2 Mile to one Inch. Statute Miles [linear scale] 1873. The Coast, Rancho, Township and Section Lines from Materials furnished by the U.S. Coast Survey and the U.S. Surveyor General's Office, the Topography chiefly from Original Surveys by C.F. Hoffmann. The soundings are expressed in feet to 18 feet, beyond it, in fathoms; the Sounding in fathoms being enclosed in circles, thus: 7 1/4 [in circle] and the figures show the depth of the mean of the lowest low water of each 24 hours below the plane of reference. Julius Bien, lith.

References: Goetzman, Exploration and Empire, discusses the California Geological Survey and also Hoffmann. This map is reproduced, p 364. Brewster, J.D. Whitney , pp 263, 399. Vogdes.

General edgewear with chips and closed tears, occasional longer closed tears, toning, fragile; about very good.