The City of San Francisco. Birds Eye View From the Bay Looking South-West

by . . Parsons, del, harles, ichard

$15,000 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

New York, Currier & Ives, 1878. Chromolithograph, 21.875” x 32.75” plus margins. CONDITION: Very good, margins expertly extended, faint toning. A splendid large-folio view of San Francisco as seen from an imaginary elevated vantage point over San Francisco Bay, showing the city as it appeared after three decades of extraordinary growth beginning with the Gold Rush in 1849.

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