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Title: Anza's California Expeditions
Author: Bolton, Herbert Eugene
Description: 5 volumes. Numerous black and white illustrations, facsimiles and maps. (4to) 8½x6, original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, printed dust jackets. First Edition.Important compilation of original source material on the Spanish exploration and settlement of Alta California, called by Howes a "Monumental work containing translations of the original MS. diaries of Anza, Diaz, Garcés, Font and Palóu relating to the 1773 and 1774 expeditions and the founding of both Monterey and San Francisco." Cowan calls it "[a] work of extensive research and most important historical value." Cowan p.60; Hill p.29; Howes B583; Zamarano Eighty 7.
Heading: Place Published: Berkeley
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 1930