Meryon Etching of San Francisco, 1856

A fine example of the 1856 U.S. Coast lithographic survey nautical chart of the entrance to San Francisco bay and the city. Published in 1856 by the Office of the Coast Survey the of...

A framed architectural engraving of a wall in Pompeii titled "In Casa Pseudourbana Di Pompei piano superiore Parete corta dell'antistuf...

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian 1720-1778) Engraving on wove paper depicting an ancient Roman funeral monument in the form of a cornucopia from the Via...

An mid-19th century colored wood engraving titled "View of the New Jersey College at Princeton New Jersey" depicting Nassau Hall in what is now Princeton University. This lovely hand colored rendition shows several walking women and a man aboard a horse, the background dominated by historic Nassau Hall, the largest academic building in the United States at the time, completed in 1756. It was here in 1783 that George Washington received formal thanks from the U.S. Congress for his efforts during the Revolutionary War...

A large folio hand colored lithograph by Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888) and James Merritt Ives (1824-1895) titled "Camping Out Some of the Right Sort" published by Currier and Ives, New York, 1856. A charming and evocative composition depicting a group of mid-19th century men...

An evocative hand colored lithograph by N. Currier (American 1813-1888), after a painting by A.F.Tait, titled "Arguing the Point", depicting a group of rural men engaged in an appare...

This is a pictorial lettersheet view of the city and harbor of San Francisco. This lithograph was printed on grey wove paper, across a double sheet, by famed lithographers Britton & ...

A fascinating and expansive six-foot-wide 1950s copy on paper of a historically important and rare 1923 panoptic engineering blueprint titled “Proposed Highway Crossing - San Francisco to Sausalito” by John G. Little & Co. It depicts a pair of suggested solutions for bridging the world famous Golden Gate, the mile-wide strait where San Francisco Bay meets the Pacific Ocean. Both crisply rendered San Francisco-to-Sausalito crossings are meticulously drafted in full at 1” = 400’ scale, with each having a total length of 22,780 feet (4.31 miles). The proposal at top depicts a high-level bridge with three 1,100 ft. spans, and the proposal at bottom depicts a combination trestle-and-tube design that presciently evokes the similarly submerged Transbay Tube that would open fifty years later nearby. Little estimated their respective costs to be $14,000,000 and $11,000,000—or approximately $215,333,000 and $169,190,000 when adjusted for inflation. As shown in the aerial view map at top right, the proposed connection points would’ve been near where Van Ness...

Gorgeous print after famed California artist Wayne Thiebaud to announce a 1985 exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art or SFMOMA. This Print is in very good condition, fra...

Bay Bridge, San Francisco. An unusual original back lit picture printed on glass that has an electric light in a specially made Victorian style frame with a depth of 5 inches to hous...

"Vintage print of a work by Robert Kent titled “San Francisco Cable Car in Fog” featuring the iconic Buena Vista restaurant. A native of Maine, Robert Kent (1933-1988) was a gradu...

Thomas Moran (American, 1837-1926). Thomas Moran "Castle of San Juan de Vlua, Vera Cruz" Etching C. 1884