The second edition of this important 1860s map of California and Nevada. First published in 1864, Bancroft’s detailed and striking pocket map of California and Nevada constitutes one of the best maps of Western America published west of the Mississippi during this period. Extracted from Bancroft’s Map of the Pacific.....
An entertaining pictorial map of the Monterey Peninsula replete with playful illustrations highlighting the area’s numerous tourist attractions. Created for the Southern California Automobile Club’s Westways Magazine, this map serves as a tourist guide to Monterey Peninsula, spanning from Lover’s Point and Punta de Los Pinos in the north to.....
![Item #5628 City and Harbor of Los Angeles [panel title]. Clason Map Co](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5628_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1704384274)
A map brochure issued by the Security Trust and Savings Bank of Los Angeles, intended to promote the city, to advertise the bank, and to closely identify the growth of the city with the growth of the bank. Appearing on the recto is “The Map of the City of Los.....
A striking post-WWII panoramic map of the Southwest including portions of Nevada and Arizona, as well as California’s Death Valley and Utah’s Zion, Bryce and Cedar Breaks areas, depicting the vast region accessible via the Union Pacific Railroad, including its mountains, cliffs, washes, plateaus, mines, Hoover and other dams, Nellis.....
![Item #9671 [Can It Be That My Tail Is Trying to Wag Me?]. Louis M. Glackens](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9671.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1744632958)
A delightful pen and ink political cartoon map showing California as the “tail that wags the dog,” drawn by a notable cartoonist. This original drawing was published in the May 14th, 1913 issue of Puck and makes reference to the growing influence of California in national politics during the first.....
An appealing promotional brochure for Yosemite National Park, including three colorful maps. This is one of two known issues of this scarce publication. Functioning as a “entrance” to the brochure, the cover panel shows a wagon passing through the “Gateway to Yosemite” at the base of the 28-foot-wide “Grizzly Giant”.....
Second edition of this map first published in 1887 by the Southern Pacific Railroad, showing by use of color California’s different climatic zones, and evidently intended to promote both travel and settlement in the region. The map extends from Mexico in the south to Oregon in the north, and from.....
A rare blueprint map showing a hydraulic gold mining company’s operation in Weaverville, Trinity County, three of the company’s properties, and other neighboring claims. Three mines belonging to the Minersville Hydraulic Gold Mining Company—Minersville No. 1, 2, and 3—are seen at lower middle, which add up to 470 acres. Showing.....
An appealing brochure including a bird’s eye view of Long Beach and greater Los Angeles, produced during the Great Depression. This view of Long Beach and the greater Los Angeles area as seen from the west, depicts major thoroughfares, towns, valleys, deserts, clubs and stadiums, beaches and ports, the San.....
A scarce and densely detailed map of the Pacific Electric Railway, initially published a year after Henry E. Huntington lost possession of the company and as it began to rapidly expand, becoming—only a decade later—the world’s largest electric railway system. This revised issue of the map reflects the growth of.....