BOLTON, Herbert Eugene.

Anza's California Expeditions.

Item #80825

BOLTON, Herbert Eugene. Anza's California Expeditions. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1930. 1st ed. 5 Vols. Frontises., plates, maps (some folding). Orig. cloth. A very good set in non-priceclipped d/j. HOWES B-523, "aa." Cowan, p.60. "Monumental work containing translations of the original MS. diaries of Anza, Diaz, Garces, Font and Palou relating to the 1773 and 1774 expeditions and the founding of both Monterey and San Francisco"--Howes. "Juan Bautista de Anza was the foremost land explorer in Spanish California. With his expedition of 1774 he opened up the land route between the established settlements of Sonora and the new colonies of Alta California, and his expedition of 1776 brought overland the colonists who founded San Francisco. Anza's accomplishments were not well understood and hence not appreciated until Bolton assembled all the diaries, journals, and correspondence of Anza in this publication. ... [T]he Font long diary of the 1776 expedition contained herein is the greatest single diary of exploration in the history of Latin America"--Zamorano Eighty, 7. Signed by the author. Presentation copy from Sidney M. Ehrman, the dedicatee of the book.

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