Lot 290
[SAN FRANCISCO]. GIFFORD, Charles Braddock and William Vallance GRAY. Bird's Eye View of the City and County of San Francisco, 1868. San Francisco: W. Vallance Gray and C. B. Gifford, 1868. FIRST EDITION.
Sale 945 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
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Nov 9, 2021
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[SAN FRANCISCO]. GIFFORD, Charles Braddock and William Vallance GRAY. Bird's Eye View of the City and County of San Francisco, 1868. San Francisco: W. Vallance Gray and C. B. Gifford, 1868.
Three-color chromolithograph, visible area 520 x 748 mm, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Three tears to side margins crossing image, some minor creasing to right margin, some overall browning or staining.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, showing a southwest view of the San Francisco peninsula, with Golden Gate in the upper right and Telegraph Hill bottom center. The view is based on a painting by Charles B. Gifford, which was copyrighted and published in 1868. A second state was published in the same year, and Reps records three additional states published in 1869, 1872, and 1873. VERY RARE IN ANY CONDITION: according to online records, we trace no example of this print at auction since 1918; we trace only 7 copies in institutions of any state. Reps 308.
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