First "official" map of San Francisco Chinatown, 1885

Heading: (Chinatown, San Francisco)
Author: Farwell, William B.
Title: The Chinese At Home and Abroad
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Bancroft
Date Published: 1885
Description:

With color lithograph fold-out "Official Map of Chinatown San Francisco", unfolds to 8½x21", color-coded to show the names of Chinese residents and business owners, Buddhist "joss houses", gambling houses, opium "resorts" and houses of prostitution. (8vo) original gilt-lettered cloth binding. First Edition.

Together with:

Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco on the Condition of the Chinese Quarter of that City.

Future San Francisco Mayor James D. Phelan's copy with his bookplate and the later bookplate of his nephew, Noel Sullivan.

Besides the notable Map, apparently the first of its kind, the manifestly racist text by Farwell, then a San Francisco Supervisor, highlights the "inhumanity" of the Chinese "race", Chinese "cheap labor", the " opium habit", the "spread of leprosy", and inter-racial conflict, including anti-Chinese massacres in Wyoming and Washington Territory, The second part of the volume is the complete text of the Board of Supervisors report on Chinatown health hazards, with an added chapter on the Chinese in Sacramento.
Condition Report: Inner hinges starting; moderate edge wear; very good overall.