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CALIFORNIA:

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OVER 300 BOOKS ON 3 DVD’s!

A truly unique and wonderful collection of over 300 rare, out-of-print books compiled together for the first time on 3 DVD’s covering all aspects of CALIFORNIAN HISTORY, GENEALOGY & ANCESTRY!

This is the ultimate collection for anyone with an interest in California, its counties and cities and their history, or indeed anyone researching distant relatives or family members who may have inhabited The Golden State in the past. Some of the books contained within this collection are extremely hard-to-find and will provide a valuable library of research material. This really is an historical and genealogical treasure trove of information – the full list of titles below speaks for itself!

This unique compilation of over 300 vintage books on DVD data disc provides literally 100,000’s of pages of great content and wonderful photos / illustrations for the reader. All of the books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on your laptop or computer, or transfer to tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire books or select pages.

This is without doubt the largest and most extensive collection of its kind - compiled over time by rare-book-collections, and only available here!

The Full List of Titles Included is as Follows:

California – Disc 1:

A California pilgrimage - F. A. Bisbee (1915)

A California tramp and later footprints; or, Life on the plains and in the Golden state thirty years ago - T. S. Kenderdine (1888)

A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties Vols. 1 & 2 - J. M. Guinn (1907)

A history of California and an extended history of Los Angeles and environs Vols. 1 - 3 - J. M. Guinn (1915)

A history of California, the American period - R. G. Cleland (1922)

A history of California, the Spanish period - C. E. Chapman (1923)

A history of the city of San Francisco; and incidentally of the state of California - J. S. Hittell (1878)

A history of the new California, its resources and people Vols. 1 & 2 - L. H. Irvine (1905)

A history of Tuolumne County, California - compiled from the most authentic records - H. O. Lang (1882)

A la California. Sketch of life in the Golden state - A. S. Evans (1872)

A memorial and biographical history of northern California, illustrated - Lewis Publishing Company (1891)

A memorial and biographical history of the coast counties of Central California - H. D. Barrows (1893)

A memorial and biographical history of the counties of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura, California - Y. A. Storke (1891)

A natural and civil history of California Vol. 2 - M. Venegas (1759)

A pictorial view of California - J. M. Letts (1853)

A picture of pioneer times in California, illustrated with anecdotes and stores taken from real life - W. F. White (1881)

A souvenir of Pioneer and old settler's day, Panama-Pacific exposition, October 16, 1915 (1915)

A trip across the plains, and life in California - G. Keller (1851)

A Volume of memoirs and genealogy of representative citizens of northern California (1901)

A winter in California - M. H. Wills (1889)

Adventuring in California, yesterday, today and day before yesterday - J. H. Parkinson (1921)

American biography and genealogy Vols. 1 & 2 - R. J. Burdette (1913)

An illustrated history of Los Angeles County, California - Lewis Publishing Co. (1889)

An illustrated history of Sacramento County, California - W. J. Davis (1890)

An Illustrated history of San Joaquin County, California - Lewis Publishing Co. (1890)

An illustrated history of Sonoma County, California. Containing a history of the county of Sonoma from the earliest period of its occupancy to the present time - Lewis Publishing Co. (1889)

Annual publication of the Historical Society of Southern California (1905) Annual publication of the Historical Society of Southern California (1909 - 1914)

Annual publication of the Historical Society of Southern California (1915 - 1916)

Annual publication of the Historical Society of Southern California (1918 - 1920)

Annual publication of the Historical Society of Southern California and of the Pioneers of Los Angeles County (1902 - 1904)

Annual publication of the Historical Society of Southern California and Pioneer register, Los Angeles (1897 - 1899)

Annual publication of the Historical Society of Southern California and Pioneer register, Los Angeles (1900 - 1901)

Authorities quoted in the History of California - H. H. Bancroft (1884)

Bean's history and directory of Nevada County, California - E. F. Bean (1867)

Bibliography of the history of California and the Pacific West, 1510-1906 - R. E. Cowan (1914)

Business directory of San Francisco and principal towns of California and Nevada - L. M. McKenny & Co. (1877)

Butte County, California - illustrations - Smith & Elliot (1877)

California '46 to '88 - J. W. Harlan (1888)

California - a guide to the Golden state (1921)

California - a pleasure trip from Gotham to the Golden Gate, April, May, June, 1877 - F. Leslie (1877)

California - H. W. Fairbanks (1903)

California - Immigration Association of California (1882)

California - the land of the sun - M. H. Austin (1914)

California and the Californians - D. S. Jordan (1889)

California coast trails; a horseback ride from Mexico to Oregon - J. S. Chase (1913)

California for health, pleasure, and residence; a book for travellers and settlers - C. Nordhoff (1882)

California from the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco - J. Royce (1886)

California illustrated - J. M. Letts (1852)

California inter pocula - H. H. Bancroft (1888)

California notes - C. B. Turrill (1876)

California pastoral. 1769-1848 - H. H. Bancroft (1888)

California revisited. 1858-1897 - T. S. Kenderdine (1898)

California sketches, new series - O. P. Fitzgerald (1882)

California sketches - O. P. Fitzgerald (1889)

California sketches, with recollections of the gold mines - L. Kip (1850)

California State Farmers Directory - Sonoma County (1922-1923)

California state gazetteer and business directory - R. L. Polk & Co. (1888)

California state gazetteer and business directory - R. L. Polk & Co. (1890)

California state gazetteer and business directory - R. L. Polk & Co. (1893)

California sunshine - L. H. Shuey (1888)

California the golden - R. D. Hunt (1911)

California three hundred and fifty years ago - C. Cole (1888)

California today - San Francisco, its metropolis - C. S. Aiken (1903)

California, in-doors and out; or, How we farm, mine, and live generally in the Golden State - E. Farnham (1856)

California, its characteristics and prospects - H. Bushnell (1858)

California, its history and romance - H. S. McGroarty (1911)

California, its products, resources, industries, and attractions - what it offers the immigrant, homeseeker, investor, and tourist - T. G. Daniells (1904)

California, our western wonderland - F. J. Koch (1923)

California, romantic and beautiful - G. W. James (1914)

California, the wonder of the age - a book for every one going to or having an interest in that golden region - T. B. King (1850)

California; an intimate history - G. Atherton (1914)

Californian pictures in prose and verse - B. P. Avery (1885)

Californian trails, intimate guide to the old missions; the story of the California missions - T. Hall (1920)

Camping out in California - J. P. Rideout (1889)

Death valley in '49. Important chapter of California pioneer history - W. L. Manly (1894)

Directory of San Diego City and County (1897)

Directory of San Diego City, Coronado and National City (1892-93)

Directory of the city of Placerville, and towns of Upper Placerville, El Dorado, Georgetown, and Coloma - Thomas fitch & Co. (1862)

Discovery of California and northwest America. The first voyage to the coast of California; made in the years 1542 and 1543 - A. S. Taylor (1853)

Eldorado; or, Adventures in the path of empire, comprising a voyage to California, via Panama; life in San Francisco and Monterey; pictures of the gold region - B. Talor (1892)

Fairfield's pioneer history of Lassen County, California - A. M. Fairfield (1916)

Finding the worth while in California - C. F. Saunders (1916)

Five years within the Golden Gate - I. Saxon (1868)

Four months among the gold-finders in California being the diary of an expedition from San Francisco to the gold districts - H. Vizetelly (1849)

Gleanings from the Golden state - E. H. Holloway (1893)

Gold and sunshine, reminiscences of early California - J. J. Ayers (1922)

Gold stories of '49 - N. Smith (1896)

Golden dreams and leaden realities - G. Payson (1853)

Granite crags of California - G. Cumming (1886)

Guide to the county archives of California (1919)

Heroes of California; the story of the founders of the Golden state - G. W. James (1910)

Historical and biographical record of Los Angeles and vicinity - J. M. Guinn (1901)

Historical and biographical record of southern California - J. M. Guinn (1902)

Historical and descriptive sketch book of Napa, Sonoma, Lake, and Mendocino - C. A. Menefee (1873)

Historical souvenir of El Dorado County, California with illustrations and biographical setches of its prominent men & pioneers - P. Sioli (1883)

History and biographical record of Monterey and San Benito Counties Vols. 1 & 2 - J. M. Guinn (1910)

History of Amador County, California - J. D. Mason (1881)

History of California Vols. 1 - 5 - Z. S. Eldredge (1905)

History of California Vol. 2 - T. H. Hittell (1885)

History of California Vols. 1 - 7 - H. H. Bancroft (1890)

California – Disc 2:

History of Contra Costa County, California - J. P. Munro-Fraser (1882)

History of Del Norte County, California - with a business directory and travelers guide - A. J. Bledsoe (1881)

History of Fresno County, California Vols. 1 & 2 - P. E. Vandor (1919)

History of Humboldt County, California - L. H. Irvine (1915)

History of Humboldt County, California - W. W. Elliot & Co. (1881)

History of Kern County, California - W. M. Morgan (1914)

History of Marin County, California - J. P. Munro-Fraser (1880)

History of Mendocino and Lake counties, California - A. O. Carpenter (1914)

History of Mendocino County, California - L. L. Palmer (1880)

History of Merced County, California - J. C. Parker (1881)

History of Montague County - W. R. Potter (1913)

History of Monterey County, California - Elliot & Moore (1881)

History of Napa and Lake Counties, California - L. L. Palmer (1881)

History of Napa County, comprising an account of its topography, geology & early settlements - W. F. Wallace (1901)

History of Orange County, California - S. Armor (1921)

History of Placer county, California - M. Angel (1882)

History of political conventions in California, 1849-1892 - W. Davis (1893)

History of Sacramento County, California - G. W. Reed (1923)

History of Sacramento County, California - W. L. Wills (1913)

History of San Benito County, California - Elliot & Moore (1881)

History of San Diego, 1542-1908 Vols. 1 & 2 - W. E. Smythe (1907)

History of San Luis Obispo County, California - A. L. Morrison (1917)

History of San Luis Obispo County, California - M. Angel (1883)

History of San Mateo County, California (1883)

History of Santa Barbara county, California - J. D. Mason (1883)

History of Santa Clara County California - E. T. Sawyer (1922)

History of Santa Clara County, California - J. P. Munro-Fraser (1881)

History of Santa Cruz County, California - E. Martin (1911)

History of Santa Cruz County, California - E. S. Harrison (1892)

History of Santa Cruz County, California - together with personal notices of prominent citizens - S. H. Willey (1879)

History of Siskiyou County, California - H. L. Wells (1881)

History of Solano County...and histories of its cities, towns...etc. - J. P. Munro-Fraser (1879)

History of Sonoma County - Alley Bowen & Co. (1880)

History of Sonoma County, California - T. J. Gregory (1911)

History of Stanislaus County California - G. H. Tinkham (1921)

History of the public school system of California - J. Swett (1876)

History of the Society of Colonial Wars in the state of California List of officers and members (1896)

History of the state of California - J. Frost (1851)

History of the State of California and biographical record of Coast Counties, California - J. M. Guinn (1904)

History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin Valley, California - J. M. Guin (1905)

History of the state of California and biographical record of the Sierras - J. M. Guinn (1906)

History of Tulare and Kings counties, California - E. Menefee (1913)

History of Washington Township, Alameda County, California - Country Club of Washington Township (1904)

History of Washington Township, Alameda County, California (1904)

History of Yolo County, California - T. J. Gregory (1913)

History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, California - P. J. Delay (1921)

History of Yuba County, California - W. H. Chamberlain (1879)

Husted's Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley directory - F. M. Husted (1884-1885)

Husted's Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley directory - F. M. Husted (1907)

Husted's Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley directory - F. M. Husted (1910)

Illustrated history of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra counties, with California from 1513 to 1850 - Farris & Smith (1882)

Incidents on land and water, or Four years on the Pacific coast - D. B. Bates (1860)

Ingersoll's century annals of San Bernadino County, 1769-1904 - L. A. Ingersoll (1904)

Kino's historical memoir of Pimería Alta; a contemporary account of the beginnings of California, Sonora, and Arizona Vols. 1 & 2 - E. F. Kino (1919)

Life in California - A. Robinson (1851)

Life in the open; sport with rod, gun, horse, and hound in southern California - C. F. Holder (1906)

Life, adventures and travels in California - T. J. Farnham (1851)

Los Angeles, California, city directory (1916)

McKenney's Pacific coast directory Vols. 1 & 2 (1878)

Misrepresentations of early California history corrected (1884)

Monterey County, California - A. Dunn (1915)

Moreno's dictionary of Spanish-named California cities and towns - H. M. Moreno (1916)

My adventures in the Sierras - O. G. Wilson (1902)

Natural wealth of California - T. F. Cronise (1868)

Nevada County, state of California - Nevada County. Board of Supervisors (1915)

Notes on the Chilula Indians of northwestern California - P. E. Goddard (1914)

Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley city directory - F. M. Husted (1887)

Off to California, a tale of the gold country - J. F. Cobb (1887)

Old Californian days - J. A. Steele (1889)

On sunset highways; a book of motor rambles in California - T. D. Murphy (1921)

Oregon and California - J. C. Fremont (1850)

Oregon and California in 1848 - J. Q. Thornton (1849)

Over the purple hills, or, sketches of travel in California - C. Churchill (1884)

Past and present of Alameda County, California Vols. 1 & 2 - J. E. Baker (1914)

Pen pictures from the garden of the world, or, Santa Clara County, California - H. S. Foote (1888)

Personal adventures in Upper and Lower California Vols. 1 & 2 - W. R. Ryan (1852)

Pioneer days in California - J. Carr (1891)

California – Disc 3:

Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer - P. H. Burnett (1880)

Recollections of a '49er - W. L. McIlhany (1904)

Reminiscences of California and the Civil War - D. C. Fletcher (1894)

Richmond, California, city directory (1914-1915)

Romantic California - E. Peixotto (1910)

San Diego City and County Directory (1905)

San Diego City and County Directory (1921)

San Diego county, California; a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement Vols. 1 & 2 - S. T. Black (1913)

San Francisco (San Francisco County, Calif.) city directory (1915)

San Francisco (San Francisco County, Calif.) city directory (1920)

San Francisco (San Francisco County, Calif.) city directory (1921)

San Francisco cemetery records (1848-1863)

Scenes of wonder and curiosity in California - J. M. Hutchings (1870)

Seven years' street preaching in San Francisco, California - W. Taylor (1875)

Sights in the gold region, and scenes by the way - T. T. Johnson (1850)

Sixteen months at the gold diggings - D. B. Woods (1852)

Sixty years in California - a history of events and life in California; personal, political and military, under the Mexican regime - W, H. Davis (1889)

Sixty years of California song - R. Alverson (1913)

Some by-ways of California - C. F. Carter (1902)

Sport and life on the Pacific slope - H. A. Vachell (1908)

Statistical county directory of San Joaquin County - D. H. Berdine (1878)

Stories of California - E. M. Sexton (1902)

Sunset playgrounds; fishing days and others in California and Canada - F. G. Aflalo (1909)

Telephone directory, San Francisco (1894)

Telephone directory, San Francisco (1906)

The Alta California supply ships, 1773-76 - C. E. Chapman (1915)

The annals of San Francisco; containing a summary of the history of California, and a complete history of its great city - F. Soule (1855)

The approaches to California - F. J. Teggart (1912)

The Argonauts of California, being the reminiscences of scenes and incidents that occurred in California in early mining days - C. W. Haskins (1890)

The Arrowhead magazine and guide book (April 1917)

The Arrowhead magazine and guide book (Dec 1917)

The Arrowhead magazine and guide book (Jan 1918 - August 1918)

The Arrowhead magazine and guide book (Dec 1918 - Jan 1919)

The Arrowhead magazine and guide book (April 1919 - June 1919)

The beginnings of San Francisco - from the expedition of Anza, 1774, to the city charter of April 15, 1850 Vols. 1 & 2 - Z. S. Eldridge (1912)

The builders of a great city - San Francisco's representative men, the city, its history and commerce Vol. 1 (1891)

The California column. Its campaigns and services in New Mexico, Arizona and Texas, during the Civil War - G. H. Pettis (1908)

The California scrap-book - a repository of useful information and select reading - O. T. Shuck (1869)

The Californiacs - I. H. Gillmore (1919)

The Californians - W. M. Fisher (1876)

The call of California, and other poems of the West - F. Borton (1921)

The centennial year book of Alameda County, California - W. Halley (1876)

The conquest of California and New Mexico, by the forces of the United States, in the years 1846 & 1847 - J. M. Cutts (1847)

The conquest of New Mexico and California - P. Cooke (1878)

The contest for California in 1861 - E. R. Kennedy (1912)

The early days and men of California - W. F. Swasey (1891)

The early days of Santa Barbara, California, from the first discoveries by Europeans to December, 1846 - W. A. Hawley (1920)

The establishment of state government in California 1846-1850 - C. Goodwin (1914)

The forty-niners - a chronicle of the California trail and El Dorado - S. E. White (1918)

The founding of Spanish California, the northwestward expansion of New Spain, 1687-1783 - C. E. Chapman (1916)

The geography of California - H. W. Fairbanks (1912)

The gold hunters - a first-hand picture of life in California mining camps in the early fifties - J. D. Borthwick (1917)

The gold hunters of California - T. E. Farish (1904)

The golden state - a history of the region west of the Rocky Mountains - R. G. McClellan (1875)

The golden West, souvenir ... primitive years in California - J. A. Forbes (1919)

The gringos - a story of the old California days in 1849 - B. M. Bower (1913)

The gun, rod and saddle; or, Nine months in California - I. Mast (1875)

The Hand book to Monterey and vicinity - A complete guide book, for tourists, campers, and vistors (1875)

The history of California - F. Tuhill (1866)

The history of California - J. F. Davis (1915)

The history of Contra Costa County, California - F. J. Hulaniski (1917)

The history of Imperial County, California - F. C. Farr (1918)

The history of Southern Methodism on the Pacific Coast - J. C. Simmons (1886)

The illustrated atlas and history of Yolo County, Cal. - De Pue & Co. (1879)

The land of gold - H. R. Helper (1855)

The loyal Californians of 1861 - H. A. Gorley (1893)

The mountains of California - J. Muir (1898)

The naturalist in California - J. G. Cooper (1869)

The Negro trail blazers of California - D. L. Beasley (1919)

The new empire and her representative men - W. Hamilton (1886)

The origin and the meaning of the name California - G. Davidson (1910)

The resources of California, comprising the society, climate, salubrity, scenery, commerce and industry of the state - J. S. Hittell (1874)

The romance of the age; or, The discovery of gold in California - E. E. Dunbar (1867)

The San Francisco business directory (1887)

The Spanish press of California (1833-1844) - R. E. Cowan (1902)

The story of California from the earliest days to the present - H. K. Norton (1913)

The story of the old missions of California; their establishment, progress and decay - L. B. Powers (1893)

The sunset land, or, The great Pacific slope - J. Todd (1870)

The tourist's California - R. K. Wood (1914)

The Valley road - A. Wheeler (1896)

The Western shore gazetteer and commercial directory for the state of California - C. P. Sprague (1870)

The wonders of the Colorado desert (southern California) its rivers and its mountains, its canyons and its springs, its life and its history Vol. 2 - G. W. James (1906)

The wonders of the Yosemite Valley, and of California - S. Kneeland (1872)

Three years in California (1846-1849) - W. Colton (1850)

Three years in California (1851-1854) - J.D. Borthwick (1857)

Toward the sunrise on The Sunset the record of a journey in the land of sunshine - Six and a half tenderfleet (1903)

Travels west - W. Minturn (1877)

Two years in California - M. Cone (1876)

Under the sky in California - C. F. Saunders (1919)

Up and down California in 1860-1864 Vol. 1 - W. H. Brewer (1910)

Visual geography of California - H. E. Floercky (1913)

Vital records from the Daily Evening Bulletin, San Francisco, California (1856)

Vital records from the Daily Evening Bulletin, San Francisco, California (1857)

Vital records from the Daily Evening Bulletin, San Francisco, California (1861)

Vital statistics from records in Trinity Episcopal church of San Francisco, California (1871)

Wayside notes on the Sunset route eastward from San Francisco - Southern Pacific Co. (1902)

Western Jewry - an account of the achievements of the Jews and Judaism in California - M. A. Meyer (1916)

Who's who in Berkeley, 1917 - G. Sutcliffe (1917)

Yuba, Sutter, Colusa, Butte and Tehama, California, Counties directory - L. M. McKenny & Co. (1884)

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