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San Francisco: A View Down California Street From Nob Hill. 24″ x 20″ S/N Edition. We will photograph you holding in thee image in our rose garden by the water fountain and frame the image for you at no cost (complimentary) for Facebook and Instagram!

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California Gold Regions rare book 1850 w/ gold map San Francisco color view etc. Sights in the gold region and scenes by the way. Second edition – revised and enlarged. Issued New York, 1850 by Baker and Scribner. In the original publishers decorative and pictorial gilt cloth binding ornately stamped in blind. Rare second edition of this book, which was printed the previous year with no map or plates in it. This example with the folding map titled map of the gold region from an actual survey by direction of Com. Front desk is a color lithograph bird eye view of San Francisco 1850 by PS Duval of Philadelphia. Book also contains three other wood engraved plates for a total of five plates, including the map. Blue cloth binding is rubbed, stained and worn along the spine ends tips and extremities, but the gilt remains visible and bright enough to enjoy the decorative designs and large image on the front cover of a miner at work. Internally slightly shaken with signatures protruding slightly from the text block. Scattered light to moderate foxing throughout, remains clean and well preserved with a fine patina and visual appeal. Evidence of former owners book plate removal from front paste down. Still a nice looking example of this rare book from this 175 year ago era. 7 1/2″ H x 5 1/4″ W. Recent Shipwrecks & Russian discoveries 1803 Philadelphia rare book. Africa exploration Egypt Libya Sonnini & Browne 1802 Philadelphia leather book. Capt Cook 3rd Voyage 1802 Philadelphia gorgeous swirled leather orig. 1899 Alphonse Daudet – Kings in Exile- illustrated French leather book novel. Indian Head White Mountains Franconia Notch New Hampshire c. Drug Topics rare magazine articles 1932 packed with advertisements & articles. Medical flora Botany Botanical book 1828 Phila. By Rafinesque 50 color plates. Natural History of Birds Buffon 1790 Ornithology illustrated book 15 bird plates. Paths of Life Juvenile game c. 1840 Quaker boxed folding panel 1992 reissue. History of Colorado 1889 By F. Hall well Illustrated Rare Book vol. San Francisco California Souvenir Album book & mini Post Cards 1900’s-40’s.

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San Francisco: A View Down California Street From Nob Hill. Unframed 20 x 24 Framed Dimensions are 30 x 34. Thom signature on back of canvas. San Francisco California Street. I was recently talking to a friend who had relocated near San Francisco and who had never before been to that city. I was trying to summarize my various feelings about one of my favorite cities and found words completely inadequate to explain the sensations that grip me when I’m in San Francisco. Perhaps that’s why I’m an artist. The lights, the mood, the flying flags and windswept wisps of fog, the bustling people and quaint bits of architecture that are San Francisco can perhaps best be captured on canvas. Yet even this is inadequate, for a purely visual image cannot relate the ambient sounds and smells that are so much a part of the City by the Bay. For example, if you were standing at the location I painted, your ears would probably be filled with the sounds of clanging cable car bells, the whistle of hotel bellmen flagging taxis, and perhaps the lonely call of seagulls overhead. Likewise, if you took a deep breath you might notice the aroma of fried rice rising from Chinatown below, or perhaps the pungent smell of sourdough bread that seems at times to be omnipresent in San Francisco. Karen’s Kinkade Art Store specializes in older hard to find Kinkade. We are located in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles at Griffith Park 90027.

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1974 Hollmann Bird’s Eye View Pictorial Map of Downtown San Francisco California. Item is vintage/preowned, see photos for condition. NOTE: Shows some signs of age/wear. Some foxing/marks in the bay. Some wrinkles on the edges. Some soiling and rough edges, but no rips/tears/pinholes (marks in upper left are from soil/age). SALE IS ONLY FOR ITEMS PICTURED UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. We do not monitor inquiries Saturday, Sunday or holidays. We source from estates in San Francisco California and therefore have limited knowledge as to the past life of listed items. Unless otherwise noted, electronic items will be tested to power on. We love happy customers!

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Published for the History of the World by Henry Bill, New York. Fine early view of San Francisco, looking out over the City from the West towards Yerba Buena Island. Published only 5 years after the beginning of the Gold Rush in 1849, the view shows the boom town and remarkable growth of the City. 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. 16 x 9 inches, very good condition for age, quite clean and great color! Does have a very small repaired stub tear of 3/4 inch in the border margin (does not extend into lithograph).

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5 x 5″ image on 8.75 x 6.75″ sheet. This color lithograph is one of the first American views of the Golden Gate ever produced. The perspective looks east from the Pacific Ocean through the Golden Gate and into the Bay of San Francisco. From the coloring and lighting, it appears this is an early morning scene, with the sun still emerging from behind the horizon. In the distance, we see a prominent peak, representing either a much exaggerated Angel Island or Mt. The image itself is circular but has been framed with a decorative arabesque border of branches and leaves that form a perfect square around it. Despite our best efforts to identify the origins of this image, we have not been able to determine exactly where it was originally printed or who might have created it in the first place. A printed text on the bottom of the image reads: Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1855 by Tho. L Hardgrove in the clerks office of the District Court of the South. However, we have found no evidence to identify the brothers Hardgrove, nor have we been able to find clues as to the artist or the original venue for its publication. Furthermore, we have not been able to locate a single institutional copy of this early view. The purpose of the piece is also a mystery. It could also be related to a variety of types of print matter, such as invitations, stationery, or songs. Our best hypothesis is that it is some type of product label, which might also explain why it has been printed asymmetrically on the sheet i. Along the right fringe of the paper rather than centered. What we have discovered, however, is that up until 1855, only very few images of the Golden Gate exist, and these are almost always early drawings and sketches (or reproductions of them). One such example is Daniel Wadsworth Coit’s pencil drawing from 1849, which now is held in the Bancroft Library of UC Berkeley Call no. BANC PIC 1899.001:08-fALB. Another is a gorgeous watercolor by Pennsylvania-born artist William Henry Meyers, who first came to San Francisco during the US-Mexican War but stayed there to document the Gold Rush. Like Coit’s drawing, Meyers’ watercolor is also held in the Bancroft Library Call no. BANC PIC 1981.029-FR. There are even earlier depictions than these, but in most cases these are either executed and printed by visiting Europeans e. French surveyor Romuald Georges Menard’s depiction from around 1839 or Fritz Wikersheim’s drawing of the Golden Gate as seen from Telegraph Hill in San Francisco, c. 1848 or they have only survived in the early photographic records of people such as Charles C Pierce California Historical Society No. For actual color lithographs produced in the United States by Americans, the best contemporary example is a dramatic composition by the American artist Thomas A. Like our lithograph, this is undated but was inscribed in the Library of Congress the same year and under the same law as our image. Neither the Ayres nor our image are found among the digitized holdings of the Library of Congress although an example of the Ayres print is held in the Bancroft Library: Call no. BANC PIC 1963.002:1402-FR. Ultimately, it is extremely difficult to determine exactly which of these two renditions is the earliest and thus the first separately-published American view of this iconic San Francisco landmark. However, it is apparent that when our image was first printed, only a handful of such depictions would have existed in the world.

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San Francisco: A View Down California Street From Nob Hill. 24″ x 20″ Artist Proof Edition Oil on Canvas Limited Edition. We will photograph you holding in thee image in our rose garden by the water fountain and frame the image for you at no cost (complimentary) for Facebook and Instagram!

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This 1990 promotional map of Alameda by T. Graphics features a clever distortion of perspective to fill the majority of the map with Alameda Island. The viewer looks west; beyond Alameda. San Francisco Bay is reduced in size and shape such that the Bay and Golden Gate Bridges are almost on top of each other. This cartographic trick allows for a detailed presentation of business and professional services. Maps promoting local commercial interests became popular in the 1980s and 1990s, but this is the rare map that also has caricatures of the business owners themselves. Check it out and enjoy! Alameda is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. It is located on Alameda Island and Bay Farm Island. It is adjacent to and south of Oakland and east of San Francisco across the San Francisco Bay. Alameda occupies what was originally a peninsula connected to Oakland. Much of it was low-lying and marshy. The higher ground nearby and adjacent parts of what is now downtown Oakland were the site of one of the largest coastal oak forests in the world. Alameda is Spanish for’grove of poplar trees,’ or’tree-lined avenue. It was chosen as the name of the city in 1853 by popular vote.

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