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Author: Bolton, Herbert Eugene
Title: Anza's California Expeditions
Place: Berkeley
Publisher: University of California Press
Date: 1930
Item # : 202160
Sale Number   415
Lot Number   24
Sale Name    
Americana - Cartography - Travel & Exploration
Sale Date   11/05/2009
Price realized   $ 228
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Description:
4 volumes (of 5), lacking Volume 4. Illustrated with photograph plates, portraits, facsimiles, maps, etc. 8½x6, blue cloth, gilt spines. 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 notes it as "of most important historical value." Cowan p.60; Hill p.29; Howes B583.
Condition:
Light wear to cloth; overall very good.
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