PLAT BOOK: Legal Description of Property in the San Fernando Valley, Showing Lot Dimensions, Metes and Bounds, Property Cuts, House Numbers, All Tract and Lot Numbers, Compiled from Official Records, Book No. 1, 2, [and] 3

Los Angeles: Brewster Maps, 1966. Hardcover. Good. The first three of four volumes in the atlas (the fourth covers the northeast corner of the San Fernando Valley). As with much of Southern California, the Second World War radically transformed the San Fernando Valley and vastly accelerated its growth. In 1945, the population stood at about 230,000, much of it around Burbank and North Hollywood. Between 1950 and 1960, residential land use grew several-fold, with hundreds of new subdivisions replacing farms and orchard land. Industry, too, spread across the Valley, along with the inter-regional freeways, and by 1970 the population had grown to 1,250,000 people.

Square folio, three volumes: unpaginated with 590 plat maps. Original brown buckram bindings, with gold-stamped titles. The first map in the first volume is detached (laid in place) and creased, with loss to the extremities (not affecting the map). Some occasional creasing and a few scattered ink notations. It appears the original binding screws have been replaced with silver fasteners. The boards are shelfworn, with a bit of splitting to the joints to the first volume and scratches to most panels.

Exceedingly scarce, OCLC locates only two holdings, both incomplete: at UCLA, which houses Book No. 1, 3, and 4, and at the Library of Congress, which houses Book No. 1, 2, and 3.