Land Titles in San Francisco, and the Laws Affecting the Same, With a Synopsis of All Grants and Sale of Land Within the Limits Claimed by the City.

"One of the Foundation Books on California Land Titles"

With the excessively scarce correct map of San Francisco.

Small quarto.10½ x 7¼ inches. 127, [2]pp. Lithograph folding map on thin tissue. Original tan calf, marbled boards, paper label (green) on front cover. Covers a bit worn. Foxing throughout. Early ownership name and date on title. Bookplate. First signature detached.

First edition. Scarce early San Francisco imprint, with the excessively scarce correct map of San Francisco entitled "Map of San Francisco, Compiled from latest Surveys & containing all late extensions & Division of Wards, published by Josiah J. Le Count, for Wheeler's Report on Land-Titles in San Francisco Cal." Cowan notes "The correct map was specially engraved for this work". Early San Francisco imprint which "includes all the grants made during the administration of the Mexican government in California to July 9, 1846. Also, all the grants by Alcaldes or those by official sales" (Greenwood 369). Also includes important Mexican and American Documents, relevant portions of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildago, the Act for the admission of California as a state. With typed catalogue entry from John Howell-Books laid in. Cowan I: p.246, Cowan II: p.677, Greenwood: 369, Howes: W315, Norris: 4174, Rocq: 12799, Peters, California on Stone: p.103, Sabin: 103174, Streeter Sale: 2728.

With the bookplate and signature of Alfred Sutro on the inside front cover. Alfred Sutro (1865-1945) was a San Francisco lawyer and book collector, highly involved with the Book Club of California.