The San Francisco Directory for the Year Commencing December 1865: (1866 on spine) Embracing a General Directory of Residents and Business Directory; Also a Directory of Streets, Public Offices, etc., and a Map of the City: Together with the Consolidation Act and its Amendments; the Municipal Government; Societies and Organizations, and a Great Variety of Useful and Statistical Information, Exhibiting at a Glance the Progress and Present Condition of the City. 8th year of publication - Henry G. Langley (compiler). San Francisco: Excelsior Steam Press: Towne & Bacon, Book and Job Printers. cxii, 679 pp.. Pastedown advertisements included in the pagination. Folding Map printed in black and red "Railroad Map of the City of San Francisco" Britton & Co. 1866 bound in at title page 137/8 x 16" or about 23 x 15.5cm. Map has detailed street and block numbers. There are an many pages of local advertising with many of California's earliest banking houses, mining companies, assayers, express and steamship companies. Contains a wealth of information on residents, businesses, streets, organizations and societies, public institutions, and city government. Slight tear 11/2" at point of attachment. Original printed (advertisements) paper-covered boards with black straight-grained Morocco spine, lettered in gilt. Paper covers stained and worn. (Very slight loss of text), a few chips missing from paper edges, Ex libris label of former owner John J. Ford the well-known Numismatist. The early issues of the Langley directories are important sources of information on San Francisco and have become quite scarce in any condition, but particularly so with the original map. QUEBEDEAUX page 128.
Date: 1865
Country (if not USA):
State: California
City: San Francisco
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