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Stock# 0045
Description
Henry Bill's view of San Francisco is among the most recognizable of all 19th Century Views of the City. Engraved as the fronticepiece for Bill's History of the World, it is one of the earliest views of San Francisco to obtain wide distribution. Published only 5 years after the beginning of the Gold Rush in 1849. Though by this time San Francisco was a bustling, robust settlement, it was still quite a small community, with the buildings merging rapidly into the rural surrounding hills. A nice wide margined example, with minor soiling in the margins. Increasingly scarce on the market.
![Geographical Map of the State of California Compiled From Actual Surveys 1893. [with:] Resources of California](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/96232.jpg)
