* Place Names & Encyclopedias

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Place Names & Encyclopedias


  • Bancroft, Hubert Howe. California Pioneer Register and Index 1542-1848 Including Inhabitants of California, 1769-1800 and List of Pioneers Extracted from The History of California by Hubert Howe Bancroft. Baltimore: Regional Publishing Co., 1964. Gilt-stamped black cloth. 392 pages. Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832-1918). Previous owner's inscription. Steel engraving portrait of Geo. Bancroft laid-in.
[original in SCIF archives; ex-lib M. D. Daily]


  • Cowan, Robert G. Ranchos of California. A list of Spanish Concessions 1775-1882 and Mexican Grants 1822-1846 Fresno: Academy Library Guild, 1956. Brown cloth. 151 pages. #545 Santa Catalina Island; #555 Santa Cruz Island; #Santa Rosa Island.
[original in SCIF archives; ex-lib M. D. Daily]


  • Gudde, Erwin G. 1000 California Place Names. Their Origin and Meaning Berkeley: UC Press, 1947. Wraps.
[original in SCIF archives; ex-lib M. D. Daily]


  • Gudde, Erwin G. California Place Names. A Geographical Dictionary Berkeley: University of California Press, 1949. Beige cloth. 431 pages. 11 x 8. This book deals with the geographical nomenclature of the State of California with approximately 6000 items.
[original in SCIF archives; ex-lib M. D. Daily]


  • Gudde, Erwin G. 1000 California Place Names. Their Origin and Meaning Berkeley: UC Press, 1971. Wraps. Third revised edition. Second Printing.

[original in SCIF archives; ex-lib M. D. Daily]


  • Hart, James D. A Companion to California. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Black cloth in pictorial dust jacket. 504 pages. Inscribed: For Marla, regards, James D. Hart 11/11/78.
[original in SCIF archives; ex-lib M. D. Daily]


  • Vallejo, Mariano Guadelupe. A member of the California Senate. April 16, 1850. A Report on the Derivation and Definition of the Names of the Several Counties in California Reprinted on the occasion of the meeting of the Western History Association in Sacramento, CA., October 9-12, 1985. Stapled wraps. Gift of Alan L. Wilson, with an accompanying letter from him to Marla Daily.
[original in SCIF archives; ex-lib M. D. Daily]


  • Wells, Harry L. California Names Los Angeles, Kellaway-Ide Company, 1940 edition. Stapled wraps.
[original in SCIF archives; ex-lib M. D. Daily]