Historical Atlas Map of Santa Clara County, California. Compiled, Drawn and Published from Personal Examinations and Surveys.

Silicon Valley Before it was Silicon Valley Scarce Atlas of Lithograph Views and Colored Maps of Santa Clara County A beautiful visual record of 19th century Santa Clara County, with lithogr. Folio. Original publisher's half sheep over gilt-stamped decorated cloth. Spine leather worn and frayed, with approx. 1 inch chipped away at head and foot of spine. Leather on corners quite worn. 110 pages (i.e. 113 pages due to three extra pages near beginning) pages. Engraved titlepage with pictorial vignette of atlases, surveyor's instruments and a globe. Complete with 21 hand-colored maps (9 are double-page, several with inset plats of townships which are listed separately in the table of contents) and 109 lithographed views (10 are double-page, most are single-page, several pages have multiple images). See below for complete listing of maps and views. Internally clean, and except for the wear to the leather portions of the binding, a very good copy. Silicon Valley Before it was Silicon Valley Scarce Atlas of Lithograph Views and Colored Maps of Santa Clara County A beautiful visual record of 19th century Santa Clara County, with lithographic views of residences and farms, as well as fine hand-colored maps depicting individual plots of land, city maps of San Jose, Gilroy, Mountain View, Los Gatos, and other locations. The lithographic views are notable as important historical records of the built and natural environments of San Jose, Gilroy, Los Gatos, and other towns in Santa Clara County. They include depictions of prominent residences, colleges, and civic buildings, with a double-page view of the workings at the New Almaden Mine. At the end of the volume are "Business directories" for the various towns in Santa Clara County. These directories are actually simple alphabetical listings of businesses in San Jose, Redwood Township, Almaden, Gilroy, Fremont, Alviso, Milpitas, and Burnett. The atlas is complete, with maps and views enumerated according to page numbers, as follows: 5. Map of Santa Clara Co. California 6. Map of the states of California and Nevada 8. Jail and Courthouse, Santa Clara Co., at San Jose, Cal. 19. Map of Santa Clara Co. California 20, 21. Map Number One: Plat of Alviso (part of Sherman Day's copy of Origin Map), Mayfield original town as surveyed for Wm. Paul, Map of villa lands of Mountain View, Fremont 22. Infirmary, Santa Clara County, Cal. 23. The Bank of San Jose 24, 25. Map Number Two: Alviso, Milpitas, Santa Clara, San Jose 26. Fredericksburg Brewery 27. Nursery of B.S. Fox, Res. and Orchard of B.S. Fox 28, 29. Map Number Three: Milpitas, San Jose, and facsimile of the original Plat of the Pueblo de San Jose taken from the surveys made in 1781 and now on file in the archives in the city of Mexico 30. Res. of J.S. Carter, Esq., Res. of Thos. Fallon. Esq. 31. Res. of C. X. Hobbs, Res. of E. L. Bradley, Esq. 32, 33. Map of the Property of Santa Clara Homestead Assoc., Plat of Evergreen, Plat of Saratoga, Fremont, Redwood 34. Res. of Prof. J.H.L. Tuck, Res. of Wm. H. Hall 35. Spring's Great American Cheap Store, San Jose Brewery & Residence of Ph. Doerr 36, 37. Map Number Five: Santa Clara, San Jose, Redwood 38. Map Number Six: San Jose 39. City of San Jose First Ward 40. City of San Jose Second Ward 41. City of San Jose Third Ward 42. City of San Jose Fourth Ward 43. Plat of Santa Clara compiled from official survey made April 1866 44, 45. Santa Clara College 46. University of the Pacific, between San Jose and Santa Clara, California. founded 1854. (Ladies Hall.) 47. Res. of J.R. Arguello 48, 49. College of Notre Dame, San Jose, Cal. 50. Reed Street .…