(#179194) POCKET GUIDE OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA; INCLUDING A HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE CITY, ITS POINTS OF INTEREST, PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND PLACES OF RESORT, HOTELS, CHURCHES, BANKS, PLACES OF AMUSEMENT, ETC., ETC., ETC.; TOGETHER WITH A STEAM, CABLE, HORSE AND ELECTRIC RAILWAY DIRECTORY, AND AN EXPLANATION OF THE STREET NUMBERING SYSTEM, FIRE-ALARM STATIONS, POSTOFFICE DIRECTORY, AND AN INDEX. AUGUST, 1886. Edited by G. B. G. California, Los Angeles.
POCKET GUIDE OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA; INCLUDING A HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE CITY, ITS POINTS OF INTEREST, PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND PLACES OF RESORT, HOTELS, CHURCHES, BANKS, PLACES OF AMUSEMENT, ETC., ETC., ETC.; TOGETHER WITH A STEAM, CABLE, HORSE AND ELECTRIC RAILWAY DIRECTORY, AND AN EXPLANATION OF THE STREET NUMBERING SYSTEM, FIRE-ALARM STATIONS, POSTOFFICE DIRECTORY, AND AN INDEX. AUGUST, 1886. Edited by G. B. G.
POCKET GUIDE OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA; INCLUDING A HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE CITY, ITS POINTS OF INTEREST, PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND PLACES OF RESORT, HOTELS, CHURCHES, BANKS, PLACES OF AMUSEMENT, ETC., ETC., ETC.; TOGETHER WITH A STEAM, CABLE, HORSE AND ELECTRIC RAILWAY DIRECTORY, AND AN EXPLANATION OF THE STREET NUMBERING SYSTEM, FIRE-ALARM STATIONS, POSTOFFICE DIRECTORY, AND AN INDEX. AUGUST, 1886. Edited by G. B. G.
POCKET GUIDE OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA; INCLUDING A HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE CITY, ITS POINTS OF INTEREST, PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND PLACES OF RESORT, HOTELS, CHURCHES, BANKS, PLACES OF AMUSEMENT, ETC., ETC., ETC.; TOGETHER WITH A STEAM, CABLE, HORSE AND ELECTRIC RAILWAY DIRECTORY, AND AN EXPLANATION OF THE STREET NUMBERING SYSTEM, FIRE-ALARM STATIONS, POSTOFFICE DIRECTORY, AND AN INDEX. AUGUST, 1886. Edited by G. B. G.

POCKET GUIDE OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA; INCLUDING A HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE CITY, ITS POINTS OF INTEREST, PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND PLACES OF RESORT, HOTELS, CHURCHES, BANKS, PLACES OF AMUSEMENT, ETC., ETC., ETC.; TOGETHER WITH A STEAM, CABLE, HORSE AND ELECTRIC RAILWAY DIRECTORY, AND AN EXPLANATION OF THE STREET NUMBERING SYSTEM, FIRE-ALARM STATIONS, POSTOFFICE DIRECTORY, AND AN INDEX. AUGUST, 1886. Edited by G. B. G. Los Angeles, Cal. Published by Place & Co., Bentley, Iles & Co., Print, 38 Downey Block, 1886. 14x9.5 cm (5 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches), pp. [1-7] 8-94, publisher's gray wrappers printed in black. First edition. An early Los Angeles guide book, filled with advertisements for local businesses. Colonel George Butler Griffin (1840–1893) was a prominent civil engineer, lawyer, author, and journalist in early Los Angeles. Born in New York City, he was educated at Columbia College and surveyed in Panama before settling in California. In 1891, he served as president of the Historical Society of Southern California and is highly regarded for translating and annotating early Spanish historical papers known as the Documents from the Sutro Collection. Griffin arrived in Los Angeles in 1881 after completing surveys for a proposed railroad route from Fort Tejon to the Mojave River. He became a foundational figure in Southern California's intellectual community, working simultaneously as a civil engineer, a lawyer, and an editorial writer for the Los Angeles Evening Express. He was deeply tied to early California history, editing and translating vital documents related to the state's maritime and mission history, including his contributions to Hubert Howe Bancroft's expansive History of California. In 1891, he translated and annotated a major volume of the Sutro Collection, which provided vital bilingual records of early Spanish voyages along the California coast. Howes G 421. Rocq (1970) 3861. Some mild soiling and creasing to wrappers, faint bookstore stamp on front cover, a very good copy. An exceptionally nice copy of a rare book. (#179194).

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