Authentic old and antique maps of California for sale. Our rare California map inventory features authentic maps of California as an Island, Spanish and Mexican Ranchos of California, antique and vintage city views and plans of Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Silicon Valley and elsewhere. Vintage pictorial maps of California are also for sale. - Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc.

(California Gold Rush Guide Book) Notes of Travel in California; Comprising the Prominent Geographical, Agricultural, Geological, and Mineralogical Features of the Country; and also, the Route From Fort Leavenworth, In Missouri, To San Diego, In California, Including Parts of Arkansas, Del Norte and Gila Rivers. From The Official Reports of Col. Fremont and Maj. Emory [with map] Map of the United States, Mexico, &c. Showing the Various Land and Water Routes from the Atlantic Cities to California. Compiled for D. Appleton & Co. New York. 1849. Printed at Ackerman's rooms. 120 Fulton St. N.Y. [spine title] California Guide Book

John Charles Fremont / William Hemsley Emory

Place/Date:

New York / 1849

Size:

6 x 9 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

85558

(California Gold Rush Letter -- Ridley's Ferry, California, April 15, 1854)

William Coruth

Place/Date:

Ridley's Ferry, CA / 1854

Size:

10 x 8 inches (each sheet)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

28700

(California Gold Rush Maps & Letters) [3 autograph letters, from Charles Vail to his father Simeon R. Vail, during and after his voyage to San Francisco on the Ship Sarah & Eliza in April and June 1849, with a manuscript map of his route from New York to San Francisco via Cape Horn, and another similar map]

Charles Vail

Place/Date:

San Francisco; at Sea in the Pacific Ocean / 1849

Size:

9.75 x 7.75 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

78628

(California Gold Rush Rarity) Map of the United States and Mexico; Showing the Trans-Union and Tehuantepec route, Between Europe and Asia . . .

John Disturnell

Place/Date:

New York / 1851

Size:

21.5 x 17 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

56589

(California Gold Rush) [Journal of a Young Hangtown Forty-Niner: Gold Diggings, Native American resistance, Vigilantism, the Lynching of Richard "Irish Dick" Cronin, Morphine Abuse, Cholera in Sacramento, and a visit to San Francisco "Babylon"]

Josephus Perrin Martin

Place/Date:

Placerville, California / 1850 - 1853

Size:

4 x 6 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

92023

(California Gold Rush) [Significant Collection of 20 Original Gold Rush letters; content-rich describing the Gold Diggings, Indian Massacre; a full-page manuscript map of Sacramento; plus a large group of additional letters]

Ralph C. Worthington

Place/Date:

Sacramento and Big Bar, CA / 1851 - 1853

Size:

Various sizes

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

100552

(California Gold Rush) [Two Original Drawings: Interior of Californian Batchelors House by S. A. Gill [and] Californian Pedaling Waggon by R. Woolner

R. Woolner / S. A. Gill

Place/Date:

/ 1845 circa 1850s

Size:

8.5 x 11 inches Sheet Size

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

86576

(California Gold Rush) A Tour of Duty in California; Including a Description of The Gold Region: And An Account of the Voyage Around Cape Horn; with Notices of Lower California, the Gulf and Pacific Coasts, and the Principal Events Attending the Conquest of the Californias.

Joseph W. Revere

Place/Date:

New York and Boston / 1849

Size:

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

69359

(California Gold Rush) Old Block's Sketch-Book; or Tales of California Life -- Illustrated With Numerous Elegant Designs, By Nahl, The Cruikshank of California.

Alonzo Delano & Charles Nahl

Place/Date:

Sacramento / 1856

Size:

6 x 9 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

69366

(California Gold Rush) Rocky-Bar Mining Company, California. Circular, Articles of Association, Resolutions, Etc. 1850

Rocky-Bar Mining Company

Place/Date:

[New York] / 1850

Size:

5 x 8.25 inches

Condition:

Fine

Stock#:

91433

(California Gold Rush) The Miner's Progress; or, Scenes in the Life of a California Miner. Being a Series of Humorous Illustrations of the “Ups and Downs” of a Gold Digger in Pursuit of His “Pile.”

Alonzo Delano & Charles Nahl

Place/Date:

Sacramento, California / 1853

Size:

5.5 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

69338

(California Land and Water Development) [Archive of manuscript letters and business documents relating to Rancho lands, water rights, and agricultural enterprises of Spaniards Joaquin Bolado, Francisco Sanjurjo, Pedro Zabala, and Juan Murrieta, in Monterey and San Luis Obispo Counties]

Francisco Sanjurjo - Pedro Zabala - Joaquin Bolado

Place/Date:

Salinas, San Luis Obispo, San Francisco, CA / 1861 - 1890 (circa)

Size:

(various)

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

87802

(California Land Surveying & Los Angeles Water Resources Development) [Extensive archive of 45 survey notebooks by California's First Licensed Surveyor, documenting 19th century California Land Surveys and Development in Avalon, Malibu, Long Beach, Palos Verdes, and Orange County. With Important 1898-1899 notes on William Mulholland during the city's negotiations over the acquisition of the Los Angeles City Water Company]

Charles T. Healey

Place/Date:

Los Angeles; San Francisco; Long Beach / 1860 -1905 circa

Size:

Various sizes

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

89422

35-Portraits & People and California Map By Britton & Rey / G. G. Gariboldi / Frederick Ma

(California Lithograph) At the Play. Respectfully Inscribed to the Wealth, Enterprise & Beauty of California by Their Faithful Friend

Britton & Rey / G. G. Gariboldi / Frederick Marriott

Place/Date:

San Francisco / 1879 July

Size:

35.5 x 24 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

84403

(California Missions) [State of the Missions in Nueva California in 1804] Estado de las Misiones de la N[uev]a California segun informes de sus Min[is]tros en fin de Diz[em]bre de 1804 [caption title]

Anonymous

Place/Date:

/ 1804 circa

Size:

11.75 x 16.75 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

93850

(California Oil Exploration) Les Trois Comtes Sud Sa. Barbara, Los Angeles Sn. Diego -- Region Du Petrol -- Mars Avril 1865

Edmond Guillemin-Tarayre

Place/Date:

Paris / 1869

Size:

17.5 x 10 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

71476

(California Photo Album) California Scenery: San Francisco, Santa Barbara and San Diego

Isaiah West Taber / C.R. Savage

Place/Date:

San Francisco / 1880 circa

Size:

11.25 x 7 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

85285

(California pictorial map) Where you can Rent-A-Car from Hav-A-Kar

Cardinal Lithograph Co.

Place/Date:

Los Angeles / 1947

Size:

18 x 24 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

97319

(California Zamorano Imprint) El Comandante Gral. y Gefe Politico de la Alta California a los Habitantes del Territorio [caption title].

José Figueroa / Agustin Zamorano

Place/Date:

Monterey, California / 1835

Size:

8.5 x 12 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

91705

(California) Nature Magazine October 1928 . . .

Garnet W. Jex

Place/Date:

n.p. / 1928

Size:

8 x 11 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

47339

(California) The State Register and Year Book of Facts: for the year 1857

Anonymous

Place/Date:

San Francisco / 1857

Size:

4.75 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

99200

(California, Oregon, and Washington) Pacific Coast Automobile Tours

Panama-Pacific International Exposition Co.

Place/Date:

San Francisco / 1915

Size:

14.5 x 32 inches (sheet size)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

93998

(Californiana - Early Female-Published Periodical) The Hesperian

Mrs. F. H. Day

Place/Date:

San Francisco / 1859

Size:

7 x 10 inches Book Size

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

69392

(Chinese Railroad Laborers and Camps -- California Gold Country) Map of Bradley & Co's Ditch Property . . .

Charles Edwin Uren

Place/Date:

Grass Valley, CA / 1880 circa ?

Size:

29 x 26.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

51344

(Corona Del Mar)

Anonymous

Place/Date:

n.p. / 1950 circa

Size:

17 x 14 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

34839

(Das Oregon-Gebiet)

Carl Flemming

Place/Date:

Glogau / 1848

Size:

13 x 16 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

52731

(Das Oregon-Gebiet)

Carl Flemming

Place/Date:

Glogau / 1848

Size:

13 x 16 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

79728

(Das Oregon-Gebiet)

Carl Flemming

Place/Date:

Glogau / 1848

Size:

12.5 x 17 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

79727

(Death Valley) Part of Eastern California, Atlas Sheet No. 65 (D)

George M. Wheeler

Place/Date:

New York / 1877

Size:

20 x 15 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

56301

(Diary of a Voyage Across America and the Pacific with Rare Yosemite Ephemera) Trip to America 18 Feb 1881 to May 3 1881 | America, Sandwich Islands, Pacific, New Zealand. Feb 22. 1882 - May 25. 1882

Olen D. Parker

Place/Date:

n.p. / 1881 - 1882

Size:

7.5 x 8.75 inches (book size)

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

87843

(Drake and Ulloa in California) Le Chevalier Draak, couronne par le Roi d'une certaine Ile, qu'il nomme Nouvelle Albion dans California (and) Escarmouche entre de Espanoles, envoyes par Ulloa . . . dan Californie

Pieter van der Aa

Place/Date:

Leiden / 1729 circa

Size:

15 x 12 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

34135gm

(Earliest Obtainable Map of San Diego Bay) Plan du Port De St. Diego en Californie. . . 1782 [with] Plan Du Port et du Departement de San Blas . . . 1777

Jean Francois Galaup de La Perouse

Place/Date:

Paris / 1797

Size:

13 x 19.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

44265

(Earliest Obtainable Map of San Diego Bay) Plan du Port De St. Diego en Californie. . . 1782 [with] Plan Du Port et du Departement de San Blas . . . 1777

Jean Francois Galaup de La Perouse

Place/Date:

Paris / 1797

Size:

13 x 19.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

54650

(Earliest Obtainable Map of San Diego Bay) Plan du Port De St. Diego en Californie. . . 1782 [with] Plan Du Port et du Departement de San Blas . . . 1777

Jean Francois Galaup de La Perouse

Place/Date:

Paris / 1797

Size:

13 x 19.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

58885

(Early California Oil) C.L. Wright's Oil Map of Northern San Luis Obispo and Southern Monterey Counties

C. L. Wright

Place/Date:

San Francisco / 1901

Size:

32.5 x 17 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

76989

(Early California Road Atlas) San Francisco Motor Club Tour Book: A Careful Compilation of Maps that you can Drive by, and Information That Informs.

San Francisco Motor Club

Place/Date:

San Francisco / 1909

Size:

4.25 x 10 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

103172

(Early Los Angeles Photograph Showing Los Angeles to Pasadena to Sierra Madre Villa Hotel Stage Coach)

A. S. Golsh

Place/Date:

Los Angeles / 1880 circa

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

31727

(First Geological Map of California) Geological Map of a Part of the State of California Explored in 1853 . . .

U.S. Pacific RR Survey

Place/Date:

New York / 1857

Size:

16 x 22 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

77467

(First Geological Map of California) Geological Map of a Part of the State of California Explored in 1853 . . .

U.S. Pacific RR Survey

Place/Date:

New York / 1857

Size:

16 x 22 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

78886

(First Geological Map of California) Geological Map of a Part of the State of California Explored in 1853 . . .

U.S. Pacific RR Survey

Place/Date:

New York / 1857

Size:

16 x 22.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

84781

(First Geological Map of California) Geological Map of a Part of the State of California Explored in 1853 . . .

U.S. Pacific RR Survey

Place/Date:

New York / 1857

Size:

16 x 22.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

88240

(First Modern Map of the California Coastline) A Chart Shewing part of the Coast of N.W. America wit the Tracks of His Majesty's Sloop Discovery. . .

George Vancouver

Place/Date:

London / 1798

Size:

24.5 x 31 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

91549

53-Southwest, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Rocky Mountains, Colorado, Utah and Cal

(First state!) Johnson's California, Territories of New Mexico and Utah

Alvin Jewett Johnson & Ross C. Browning

Place/Date:

New York / 1860

Size:

24 x 17 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

94910

(First State!) Oregon and Upper California . . . 1846

Samuel Augustus Mitchell

Place/Date:

Philadelphia / 1846

Size:

12.5 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

93418

(First Yosemite Guidebook - Muybridge Photographs) Yosemite: Its Wonders and Its Beauties With Information Adapted to the Wants of Tourists About to Visit the Valley.

John Shertzer Hittel & Eadweard Muybridge

Place/Date:

San Francisco / 1868

Size:

4.75 x 7.5 inches

Condition:

Fine

Stock#:

95070

(Fremont and Mountain View areas of Santa Clara County (and) Plan of Alviso (with) Map of Villa Lands of Mountain View (with) Mayfield

Thompson & West

Place/Date:

San Francisco / 1876

Size:

25 x 16.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

29503

(Includes Oil Fields) Map of Kern County California Compiled and Issued by the State Mining Bureau . . . Lewis E. Aubury, State Mineralogist February,1904

California State Mining Bureau

Place/Date:

n.p. / 1904

Size:

39 x 19.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

43215

(Jamacha Rancho, San Diego) Portion of Tract F. [Pair of maps showing lands of Sweetwater Valley Irrigation Company]

Anonymous

Place/Date:

San Diego County / 1886 circa

Size:

36 x 22.5 inches Larger Sheet

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

96429

(Locating 255 wineries in Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino, and Lake Counties) Wine Country Tour-Map

Ron Morales

Place/Date:

n.p. / 1992

Size:

16.5 x 21.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

77066

(Los Angeles Basin)

Anonymous

Place/Date:

n.p. / 1930

Size:

22 x 30.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

34202

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