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87, [1] pp. of ink manuscript. 33x22 cm. (13x8¾") original leather-backed pebbled cloth, three-hole punched and tied with cord at left margin, with decorative front cover label, partly printed with remainder filled in ink.

Detailed title search from early San Francisco, meticulously compiled and recorded in several neat legal hands. The property in question, a lot on Sumner Street between Howard and Clementina, was originally purchased by Henry Gerke in 1849 (certified by John W. Geary, San Francisco's first alcalde), and changed hands an extraordinary number of times in the intervening 35 years.