This reference work is designed to help students, researchers, general readers and librarians retrieve historical information. The organisation of the book is geographic, by genre, and by type of holding. All the works listed (mostly in English) are annotated and arranged by LC classification.

Includes indexes.

General history of civilization -- General antiquities -- Archives -- Chronology -- Numismatics -- Heraldry -- Genealogy -- Biography -- History and topography (except America) -- Great Britain -- Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary -- France -- Germany -- Mediterranean region, Greco Roman world -- Greece -- Italy -- Russia, Poland, Finland, Rumania, Asia -- Scandinavia -- Spain -- Eastern Europe, Balkan Peninsula -- Asia -- Africa -- Oceania -- Gypsies -- America (general) and United States (general) -- United States (local) and America except the U.S. -- Family, marriage, women -- International law -- Bibliography.