John G. Parke. From San Francisco Bay to the Plains of Los Angeles. 1861 Priscilla Susan Falkner Bury much admired and collected in

much admired and collected in England

Plate XCII

The extended title of the 1776 edition includes the statement that it is "reduc'd from" a large-scale map by Sauthier

as other Spanish maps showed California as a peninsula

he produced an extraordinarily broad range of works: designs for wood engravings

John G. Parke. From San Francisco Bay to the Plains of Los Angeles. 1861 Priscilla Susan Falkner Bury much admired and collected inLieut. John G. Parke From San Francisco Bay to the Plains of Los Angeles 1854 1855 1861 (pub.) Washington D. C. Sheet size: approx. 28. 5 x 35" This is a highly detailed early land survey map of Southern and Central California from Los Angeles to San Francisco. The work is a culmination of two years worth of surveying potential routes for a Pacific Railroad that would link all major cities and settlements along the west coast with transcontinental