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64. (California History) Small group of booklets and offprints about California history. Includes: Cushing,Charles S. The Acquisition of California, its Influence and Development Under American Rule. SanFrancisco: Recorder Co., 1919. * Hunt, Rockwell D. The Committees of Vigilance of California.Reprinted from the Annual Publications of the Historical Society of Calif. * Ferrier, William Warren.Congregationalism’s Place in California History. Berkeley, CA, 1948. * Course in Historical Research,1920-1921: Battle of Monterey. Camp Benning, GA: Infantry School Press, 1921. * 2 copies of:Teggard, Frederick J. The Approaches to California. Reprint from the Southwestern HistoricalQuarterly, July, 1912. 10 Publications from the Academy of Pacific Coast History, UC Berkeley, withsome duplication. 1909-1913. Together 16 volumes in wrappers.Various places: Various datesSome light wear from handling; very good or near fine.(200/300)65. (California - Humboldt County) Humboldt County California Wants Your Factory. [48] pp.30.5x23 cm. (12x9”) original illustrated wrappers. First Edition.Eureka, CA: Times Publishing Company, 1917Elaborate and uncommon promotional brochure for Humboldt County, issued by theHumboldt Times. OCLC locates only 7 copies of this title. Wrappers worn at spine and edges;very good.(100/150)66. (California - Humboldt County) Irvine, Leigh H. The Playground of the West: What HumboldtCounty, California, offers the autoist and sportsman. 31, [1] pp. incl. self-wrappers. With 8 full-pageillustrations from photographs, 1 double-page, and 1 half-page. 16.5x13 cm. (6½x5”), printed selfwrappers.[Eureka, CA]: [Daily Standard Press], c.1910-19Booklet no. 2. Issued by the Humboldt promotion and development committee. Irvineauthored several historical works on California, including a 1290 page history of HumboldtCounty. OCLC/WorldCat lists only two copies of this rare booklet, at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, and the Library of Congress. Rocq 2111 (listing only the UC copy). Somesoiling and rubbing to wrappers, 3 short, neatly repaired tears within, very good.(300/500)67. (California - Los Angeles Aqueduct) Complete Report on Construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.With Introductory Historical Sketch. 319, [11] pp. With numerous plates from photographs (incl.in the pagination); 14 maps, plans & graphs in the text; 23 loose folding maps, plans and graphs(formerly in rear endpaper pocket); large folding map, loose as well. (4to) 27x19.6 cm. (10¾x7¾”),original green cloth, lettered in black. First Edition.Los Angeles: Department of Public Service, 1916Official report on the massive engineering project which diverted the waters of the OwensRiver to the plains of Los Angeles, allowing that city to grow at an increasingly frenetic pace,and reverting the lush Owens Valley to a dusty crevice. Included are numerous photographs ofthe breathtaking regions of the southern Sierra Nevada from which the water was to come, andthe man made dams, ditches and tunnels through which it made its way to irrigate the orangefields of the San Fernando Valley. The many folding plans and diagrams detail the physicalconfiguration of the canals and other features, as well as graphing the impact upon Los Angelesand her ability to grow. Light cover stain, wear to corners and other extremities, rear pocketstarting to tear (as is typical of this title), bookplate of James Rudolph Garfield (apparently a sonof former President James A. Garfield) to front pastedown; very good.(150/250)Page 22