1854 Henry Bill View or Map of San Francisco, California
SanFrancisco2-bill-1854$900.00
Title
San Francisco. 1854.
1854 (dated) 9 x 16.5 in (22.86 x 41.91 cm)
1854 (dated) 9 x 16.5 in (22.86 x 41.91 cm)
Description
A highly appealing view map of San Francisco dating to 1854. Reveals San Francisco as seen from Nob Hill looking down California Street. Telegraph Hill appears on the left. Shows numerous buildings and ships throughout. The most important buildings and locations are identified numerically. These include North Bay, Contra Costa, Yerba Buena Island, the California Exchange, the Plaza, Leanard's Warehouse, Ricon Point, the Market Street Pier, California Street, Central Warf, the Catholic Church, the Marine Telegraph, and Anjill Island. Published by Henry Bill for inclusion in the 1854 edition of his History of the World. There are seven different printings of this view, the earliest appearing in 1850 with subsequent editions in 1851, 1852, 1854, 1855, 1856, and 1857. Only the 1851 version appears to be from a different plate.
Cartographer
Henry Bill (fl. c. 1850- c. 1857) was a Connecticut based publisher and historian active in the middle part of the 19th century. He published a number of histories including Samuel Maunder's well-regarded two volume History of the World.
Source
Maunder, S., History of the World, (Henry Bill, New York, 1854.
Condition
Good. Wear along original fold lines. Light foxing. Foxing around outer margins. Closed tear along left margin extending 2 inches into printed area. Backed on archival tissue.
References
University of California, Berkley, Bancroft Library, 'Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material,' BANC PIC 1963.002:0554--B.