A Bibliography of the History of California

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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:
 
Reference:
 
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
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Errata sheet

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