Title: Township and County Map of the Central part of California Exhibiting the U.S. Land Surveys, Schools, Land Districts, Post Offices, Roads and Rail Roads, Towns, Townships, Cities and Diagrams of the Same. Ranches or Farms and Proprietors Thereof. Rivers, Creeks, Lakes, Mountains, Ditches, Bridges, Ferries, Dams and Tunnels, Placer and Quartz Diggings, Mills, Lodes or Veins, Ancient Streams or Gravel and Bed Rock Ranges... Author: Doolittle, A.J. Place: San Francisco Publisher: A.J. Doolittle... Brown & Co. Lith. Date: 1868 Description: Lithographed map, hand-colored. 99x73 cm (39x28¾"), mounted on linen backing, shellacked, wooden roller at bottom (lacking top roller). Rare map of the central portion of northern California, from Sacramento in the south to Oroville in the north, with the western edge just beyond the Feather river, and east to Bardwell's Bar. There are a number of insets of towns an cities: San Francisco; Folsom, Washington; Nevada City; Grass Valley; Oroville; Auburn; Placerville. OCLC/WorldCat lists just five copies (none apparently in wall map format), and locates four of them, at the University of California Berkeley, the Huntington Library, and two at the University of California Davis. Provenance: Alta California Books, '68 References: Rowell, p 11. Lot Amendments Condition: Top edge ragged with some loss of surface near the top affecting some insets and text; the remainder of the map very good. Item number: 271337
Title: Township and County Map of the Central part of California Exhibiting the U.S. Land Surveys, Schools, Land Districts, Post Offices, Roads and Rail Roads, Towns, Townships, Cities and Diagrams of the Same. Ranches or Farms and Proprietors Thereof. Rivers, Creeks, Lakes, Mountains, Ditches, Bridges, Ferries, Dams and Tunnels, Placer and Quartz Diggings, Mills, Lodes or Veins, Ancient Streams or Gravel and Bed Rock Ranges... Author: Doolittle, A.J. Place: San Francisco Publisher: A.J. Doolittle... Brown & Co. Lith. Date: 1868 Description: Lithographed map, hand-colored. 99x73 cm (39x28¾"), mounted on linen backing, shellacked, wooden roller at bottom (lacking top roller). Rare map of the central portion of northern California, from Sacramento in the south to Oroville in the north, with the western edge just beyond the Feather river, and east to Bardwell's Bar. There are a number of insets of towns an cities: San Francisco; Folsom, Washington; Nevada City; Grass Valley; Oroville; Auburn; Placerville. OCLC/WorldCat lists just five copies (none apparently in wall map format), and locates four of them, at the University of California Berkeley, the Huntington Library, and two at the University of California Davis. Provenance: Alta California Books, '68 References: Rowell, p 11. Lot Amendments Condition: Top edge ragged with some loss of surface near the top affecting some insets and text; the remainder of the map very good. Item number: 271337
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