Email this lot to a friend

« Email Address (separate multiple emails with a comma)

hide

Lot 123

translate

email

save

History of Los Angeles County 1887 litho plates

Sign In to see what this sold for

Title: History of Los Angeles County, California, with Illustrations Descriptive of Its Scenery, Residences, Fine Blocks and Manufactories, from Original Sketches by Artists of the Highest Ability
Author: [Wilson, John Albert]
Description: vi, [11]-192 pp. Illus. with 86 lithographed plates (2 of them double-page); hand-colored lithographed map. 28.5x36.5 cm. (11¼x14½"), original leather-backed cloth, front cover lettered in gilt with gilt and blind-stamped ornaments. First Edition.Spectacular series of views of the rather sleepy settlements which were to become the megapolis of Southern California, including the communities of the future Orange County, just prior to the boom of the 1880s. The historical text includes biographical data, a business directory, etc. One of the scarcer of the Thompson & West county histories, and of a very desirable area. Cowan p. 397; Rocq 2657.
Heading: (Los Angeles)Place Published: Oakland
Publisher: Thompson & West
Date Published: 1887