A Bibliography of the History of California
Cover
- Item:
- Book Club of California
- Title:
- A Bibliography of the History of California and the Pacific West 1510-1906
- Author:
- Robert Ernest Cowan
- Illustrator:
-
- Printer:
- Taylor, Nash & Taylor
- Place of Printing:
- San Francisco, CA
- Date of Printing:
- 1914
- Format:
- 10.5 x 8 inches
- Language:
-
- Incipit:
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- Reference:
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- McCune Location:
- So. 3 #1
Author and Commentators
Robert Ernest Cowan (1862-1934). Librarian and bibliographer. Born in Toronto, he moved to San Francisco while a child. Cowan studied at University of California, Berkeley before working as a bookseller for twenty-five years. He became librarian for William Andrews Clark, Jr. 1919-1933.
John W. Dwinelle (1816-1881). Early California settler, lawyer, legislator, Oakland mayor. Dwinelle sponsored the bill to establish the University of California and was a regent of the University for a number of years.
The Book
This is #180 of 250 copies. The covers are gray with a paste-on title on the spine. The Note by the author and the Address by Dwinelle both begin with an enlarged decorated initial in red. Approximately 1000 books are listed. The first book chronologically is Las Sergas Del Espandian by G.O. de Montalvo printed in 1510 which mentions California as the island of the Amazons. However, there are no books listed for 1906. The chronology basically ends in 1905 except for the Bibliography of the Chinese Question by R.E. Cowan and B. Dunlap, which was printed in 1909. Each book listed in this volume has notes by Cowan explaining its usefulness.
Contents
- Title
- A Bibliography of the History of California and the Pacific West 1510-1906
- ii
- Copyright
- iii-iv
- A Note on the Bibliography of California by the author.
- vii-xxxi
- Address on the Acquisition of California by the United States by John W. Dwinelle [Given on the 16th anniversary of the admission of California to the Union – 1866]
- 1-255
- Bibliography text listing the books alphabetically with brief descriptions
- 259-284
- Chronological index
- 287-318
- Title and subject index
- 319
- Colophon
- --
- Errata sheet
Gallery
Spine
Cover
Title
Note
Note
Address
page vii
pages viii-ix
pages x-xi
. pages xii-xiii
pages xiv-xv
pages xvi-xvii
pages xviii-xix
pages xx-xxii
pages xxii-xxiii
pages xxiv-xxv
pages xxvi-xxvii
xxviii-xxix
pages xxx-xxxi
page 1
pages 2-3
pages 260-261
pages 288-289
pages 318 & colophon
Colophon
Announcement from BCC
Title
page iii
page iv
page 83
page 84