This scarce plan is the first city map of the newly-established San Francisco. It was produced by William Eddy, the Surveyor of the Town of San Francisco. Planned tracts are shown extending into the bay depicting the areas of landfill extension. The map is filled with excellent detail, including individual lots numbered and many streets named. Some of the locations named include the Yerba Buena Cemetery, a Government Reserve, two Public Squares and Fort Montgomery, but no buildings are shown. There is a colored key at lower left identifying a grant to Senora Briones, the claims of the heirs of Col. J. A. King and a claim of Senor Pana under a Mexican Grant. Two distance scales are shown at the lower right including varas to the inch. The map is still bound in the original "Report on the Subject of Titles in California" by William Carey Jones here as the "Report of the Secretary of the Interior, Communicating a copy of the report of William Carey Jones, special agent to examine the subject of land titles in California," dated April 23, 1850. 8vo, 136pp. This report is the second and most desirable because of the addition of the map. Drawn by S. W. Higgins with this edition copied by P.M. McGill. It was printed by C.B. Graham in Washington, D.C.

References: Howes #E248.

Condition: B+

The map has some scattered foxing spots mostly along one fold and a line of toning along another, other wise very good. The report is disbound with tight contents and some light small foxing to text pages.