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• Californie -- Descriptions et voyages

• The lost trappers a collection of interesting scenes and events in the Rocky Mountains : together with a short description of California : also, some account of the fur trade, especially as carried on about the sources of Missouri, Yellow Stone, and on the waters of the Columbia, in the Rocky Mountains (E.D. Truman, 1850), by David H. Coyner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geographical memoir upon Upper California : addressed to the Senate of the United States in 1848 / by John Charles Fremont. To which are now added, extracts from Hakluyt's collection of voyages, La Peyrouse's voyage, Venega's history of California, Harris's collection of voyages, Von Langdorff's travels, Alcedo's geographical and historical dictionary, Hastings's guide to Oregon and California, the presidents's message to Congress, December 5, 1848, Col. Mason's report to the Secretary at War, letter of the Rev. Walter Colton, August 29, 1848... / [edited] by William McCarty (W. McCarty, 1849), by J. C. Frémont and William McCarty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geographical description of the state of Texas also, of that part of the west coast of North America, which includes Oregon, and Upper California. (Thomas, Cowperthwait, 1846) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noticias de la provincia de Californias en tres cartas de un sacerdote religioso hijo del real convento de predicadores de Valencia a un amigo suyo. (Por los Hermanos de Orga, 1794), by Luis Sales (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life, adventures, and travels in California to which are added the conquest of California, travels in Oregon, and history of the gold regions (Nafis & Cornish, 1850), by Thomas Jefferson Farnham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in the Californias, and scenes in the Pacific Ocean (Saxton & Miles, 1844), by Thomas Jefferson Farnham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life, adventures, and travels in California to which are added conquest of California and travels in Oregon (Sheldon, Lamport, and Blakeman, 1855), by Thomas Jefferson Farnham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lost trappers a collection of interesting scenes and events in the Rocky Mountains : together with a short description of California : also, some account of the fur trade especially as carried on about the sources of Missouri, Yellow Stone, and on the waters of the Columbia, in the Rocky Mountains (Hurst, 1847), by David H. Coyner (page images at HathiTrust)
• A voyage to California to observe the transit of Venus by Mons. Chappe d'Auteroche : with an historical description of the author's route through Mexico, and the natural history of that province. Also, A voyage to Newfoundland and Sallee, to make experiments on Mr. Le Roy' s time keeper (Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly ..., 1778), by abbé Chappe d'Auteroche and Jean-Dominique Cassini (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early days of California embracing what I saw and heard there, with scenes in the Pacific (J.E. Potter, 1859), by Thomas Jefferson Farnham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geographical memoir upon Upper California (s.n., 1856), by J. C. Frémont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reise nach dem Felsengebirge im Jahre 1842 und nach dem Oregongebiet und Nord-Californien in den Jahren 1843 und 1844 (s.n., 1848), by J. C. Frémont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reisen durch die Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerica nebst einem Ausfluge nach Canada nach F.v. Raumer, F. Gerstaker ... U. A. M. sowie nach dem Felsengebirge im Jahre 1842 und nach dem Oregongebeit und Nord-Californien in den Jahren 1843 und 1844 (A. Weichardt, 1848), by J. C. Frémont (page images at HathiTrust)
• A natural and civil history of California containing an accurate description of that country, its soil ... the customs of the inhabitants ... together with accounts of several voyages ... illustrated with copper plates ... (Printed for James Rivington and James Fletcher ..., 1759), by Miguèl Venegas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage en Californie pour l'observation du passage de Venus sur le disque du soleil, le 3 juin 1769 contenant les observations de ce phénomène, & la description historique de la route de l'auteur à travers le Mexique (Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, libraire du roi ..., 1772), by abbé Chappe d'Auteroche (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exploration du territoire de l'Orégon, des Californies et de la mer Vermeille, executée pendant les années 1840, 1841 et 1842 (A. Bertrand, 1844), by Eugène Duflot de Mofras (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les Californies, l'Orégon, et l'Amérique russe (s.n., 1849), by Ferdinand Denis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lost trappers a collection of interesting scenes and events in the Rocky Mountains : together with a short description of California : also, some account of the fur trade especially as carried on about the sources of Missouri, Yellow Stone, and on the waters of the Columbia, in the Rocky Mountains (J.A. & U.P. James, 1847), by David H. Coyner (page images at HathiTrust)

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• 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, and experiences of Mexican travel (New York : George P. Putnam & Co. ; London : Richard Bentley, 1856., 1856), by Bayard Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft California inter pocula. (History Co., 1888), by Hubert Howe Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Raymond's vacation excursions California, the Pacific Northwest, and Alaska : three spring tours leaving Boston April 25, 1892 (s.n., 1892), by Raymond & Whitcomb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alaska, Reisen und Erlebnisse im hohen Norden (G. Westermann, 1869), by Frederick Whymper and Friedrich Steger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The geography of Oregon and California, and the other territories of the north-west coast of North America illustrated by a new and beautiful map of those countries (Printed for the author by Freeman and Bolles, 1845), by Robert Greenhow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description of Oregon and California embracing an account of the gold regions : to which is added an appendix, containing descriptions of various kinds of gold, and methods of testing its genuineness. (Thomas, Cowperthwait, 1849), by S. Augustus Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neuer praktischer Wegweiser für Auswanderer nach Nord-Amerika in drei Abtheilungen mit Karten, Plänen und Ansichten (Le Roux, 1849), by B. Schmölder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Natürliche und bürgerliche Geschichte von Californien nebst einer neuen Charte dieses Landes und der benachbarten Meere (In der Meyerschen Buchhandlung, 1769), by Miguèl Venegas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages et aventures dans la Colombie anglaise l'î le Vancouver, le territoire Alaska et la Californie (Hachette, 1880), by Frederick Whymper and H. Vattemare (page images at HathiTrust)
• By path and trail (Chicago Newspaper Union, 1908), by W. R. Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to the Yo-Semite Valley (A. Roman and Company, 1875), by J. M. Hutchings (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Silverado squatters (Chatto & Windus, 1917), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• California as a health resort (Bolte & Braden Co., 1916), by F. C. S. Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)
• To the Pacific and back. (Sunshine Pub. Co., 1887), by J. A. I. Washburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The H.M.M.B.A. in California (G.W. James, 1896), by George Wharton James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels with a donkey (Dent;, 1960), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Around the Horn to the Sandwich Islands and California, 1845-1850, being a personal record kept by Chester S. Lyman (Yale University Press, 1924), by Chester Smith Lyman and Frederick John Teggart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pass (Doubleday, Page, 1925), by Stewart Edward White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Between the gates (S.C. Griggs, 1879), by Benjamin F. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• From San Francisco, California to the city of Mexico (Pan-American Pub. Co., 1891), by José F. Godoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels of Robert and Sarah Lindsey (Samuel Harris and Co., 1886), by Robert Lindsey and Sarah Crosland Lindsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The round trip from the Hub to the Golden Gate (Lee and Shepard ;, 1890), by Susie Champney Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gypsies, or, Why we went gypsying in the Sierras (Eastern Book Co., 1882), by Dio Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• To California and back (Pasenger Dept., Santa Fe, 1902), by C. A. Higgins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thirty years ago, 1849-1879 ([G.D. Dornin], 1879), by George D. Dornin (page images at HathiTrust)
• To California and back (Passenger Dept., Santa Fe, 1906), by C. A. Higgins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Allerhand heiteres aus Californien (E. Avenarius, 1900), by Theodor Kirchhoff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• California today : San Francisco, its metropolis (California Promotion Committee of San Francisco, 1903), by Charles Sedgwick Aiken and California Promotion Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• To California and back (Pasenger Dept., Santa Fe, 1903), by C. A. Higgins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scenes of wonder and curiosity in California : a tourist's guide to the Yosemite Valley (A. Roman, 1871), by J. M. Hutchings (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mountains of California (The Century Co., 1904), by John Muir (page images at HathiTrust)
• Granite crags of California (W. Blackwood and Sons, 1884), by C. F. Gordon Cumming (page images at HathiTrust)
• California addresses (California Promotion Committee, 1903), by Theodore Roosevelt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Granite crags of California (William Blackwood and Sons, 1886), by C. F. Gordon Cumming (page images at HathiTrust)
• Physical features of the state ([State of California, Bureau of Highways], 1896), by Marsden Manson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Granite crags of California (William Blackwood and Sons, 1901), by C. F. Gordon Cumming (page images at HathiTrust)
• California illustrated : including a trip through Yellowstone Park (DeWolfe, Fiske & Co., 1892), by F. K. Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mountains of California (Century Co., 1894), by John Muir (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wonders of the Yosemite Valley, and of California (Alexander Moore ;, 1872), by Samuel Kneeland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern California : geography, climate, soil and productions, past, present and future of the golden State : a few facts of interest to tourists and immigrants (Cunningham, Curtiss & Welch, Stationers, 1879), by C. H. Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• California and the Californians (Whitaker and Ray Co., 1899), by David Starr Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from the numerous letters and patriotic speeches of my Husband (Bonnard & Daly, 1876), by H. A. Gorley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scenes of wonder and curiosity in California : a tourist's guide to the Yosemite Valley (A. Roman, 1872), by J. M. Hutchings (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scenes of wonder and curiosity in California : a tourist's guide to the Yosemite Valley (A. Roman, 1876), by J. M. Hutchings (page images at HathiTrust)
• Between the gates (S.C. Griggs and Co., 1880), by Benjamin F. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• All about California : and the inducements to settle there. (California Immigrant Union, 1872), by California Immigrant Union (page images at HathiTrust)
• Californias historia under fyrtioårsperioden, 1849-1889 ("Vestkustens" Förlag, 1891), by Ossian Sterner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Adventures of a captain's wife going through the Straits of Magellan to California in 1850 : and returning by the Isthmus. (A. Roman and Co., 1877) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wonders of the Yosemite Valley, and of California (A. Moore, 1871), by Samuel Kneeland (page images at HathiTrust)
• A view of California as it is : containing reliable information on the natural resources of the state ... (Bynon & Wright, 1874), by Joseph Weed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands (Harper & Bros., 1877), by Charles Nordhoff, William Tufts Brigham, and Jules Remy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hints to strangers : where to go while in California. (Taber, in the 1880s), by I. W. Taber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Californian pictures in prose and verse (Hurd and Houghton ;, 1878), by Benjamin Parke Avery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two sunny winters in California (Headley Bros., 1904), by Gulielma Crosfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canyon and crater, or, Scenes in California and the Sandwich Islands (Republic Print. Co., 1874), by John W. Bookwalter (page images at HathiTrust)
• A trip to California in 1868 (Trow's Print. and Bookbinding Co., 1880), by John Olmsted (page images at HathiTrust)
• Viaje al pais de la libertad : la vida comunal en Estados Unidos (Impr. de la Repuública, de Jacinto Nuñéz, 1877), by Louis Jacolliot and Ismael Valdés Vergara (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dr. Frederic Richard Lees, F.S.A. Edin. : a biography (H.J. Osborn, 1904), by Frederic Lees (page images at HathiTrust)
• California : uittreksels uit consulaire jaarverslagen. (E.J. Brill, 1876), by James De Fremery and Calif.) Netherlands. Consul-General (San Francisco (page images at HathiTrust)
• A winter in California (M.R. Wills, 1889), by Mary H. Wills (page images at HathiTrust)
• A month in California (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1873), by James Cropper (page images at HathiTrust)
• California : uittreksels uit consulaire jaarverslagen :tweede bundel, 1876-1890. (W.P. Van Stockum & Zoon, 1891), by James De Fremery and Calif.) Netherlands. Consul-General (San Francisco (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wonders of the Yosemite Valley, and of California (A. Moore :, 1872), by Samuel Kneeland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three years in California (Cleaves, Macdonald & Co., 1886), by Walter Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A true story of some eventful years in grandpa's life ([H.E. Perrine], 1885), by Henry E. Perrine (page images at HathiTrust)
• California (Wright & Potter, Printers, 1871), by Marshall P. Wilder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of travel in California (C.M. Churchill, 1884), by Caroline M. Churchill (page images at HathiTrust)
• California sketches : new series (Southern Methodist Pub. House, 1881), by O. P. Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shasta resorts. (Southern Pacific, 1905), by Southern Pacific Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Californische Kulturbilder (T. Fischer, 1886), by Theodor Kirchhoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Californians (A.L. Bancroft and Co., 1876), by Walter Mulrea Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes of two trips to California and return : taken in 1883 and 1886-7 ([publisher not identified], in the 1890s), by Solomon Mead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Something about California : being a description of its climate, health, wealth and resources, compressed into small compass : Napa County : its agricultural resources, vineyards, health and population (Reporter Book Press, 1876), by George W. Gift (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thrilling experience of the Welsh evangelist, R.G. Williams, reformed drunkard and gambler, or, Forty-eight years in darkness and sin and eleven years in the light and love of Christ Jesus. (Marks & Williams, 1896), by R. G. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pass (Outing Pub. Co., 1906), by Stewart Edward White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The City of San Francisco and the state of California. (Press of Commercial Pub. Co., for the Metropolitan Pub. Co., 1892), by Metropolitan Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• California for immigrants (Southern Pacific Railroad, in the 1880s), by Charles Nordhoff and Southern Pacific Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• To California and back : a book of practical information for travelers to the Pacific (Doubleday, Page & Co., 1903), by C. A. Higgins and Charles Keeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Saunterings in summerland (Ernest K. Foster, 1902), by J. Torrey Connor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Naar Californië : Reisherinneringen (H.D. Tjeenk Willink & Zoon, 1906), by Hugo de Vries (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Where to go in California : an illustrated souvenir guide to the seaside, mountain, and valley resorts of California, including the old missions : prepared for information of teachers and others attending the meeting of the National Educational Association, at Los Angeles, July 11-14, 1899 (Rand, McNally, 1899), by W. H. Simpson and Calif.) National Education Association of the United States. Meeting 1899 : Los Angeles (page images at HathiTrust)
• In search of a climate (Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1894), by Charles George Nottage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wonders of the Sierra Nevada, and Coast range (H.S. Crocker & Co., 1881), by John J. Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• California : a brief description of the chief points of interest in the state, and the most convenient means of reaching them : together with information concerning train service to the coast via the Chicago, Union Pacific and North-Western Line. (General Passenger Dept., Chicago & North-Western Ry., 1902), by Chicago and North Western Railway Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some by-ways of California (Grafton Press, 1902), by Charles Franklin Carter (page images at HathiTrust)
• California for health, pleasure and profit : why you should go there. (Passenger Dept. of the Southern Pacific Co., 1894), by Southern Pacific Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cold facts about California (Star Pub. Co., 1895), by Owen O. Hope (page images at HathiTrust)
• To California over the Santa Fé trail (Passenger Dept. Santa Fé route, 1893), by C. A. Higgins and Topeka Atchison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lands of the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California : with general information on the resources of the country through which the railroad takes its way. ([publisher not identified], 1880), by Central Pacific Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• California and the Californians : and the Alps of King-Kern divide (Whitaker and Ray Co., 1903), by David Starr Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• California, the coast country (Passenger Dept., Southern Pacific Co., 1904), by Paul Shoup and Southern Pacific Company (page images at HathiTrust)

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