Anza's California Expeditions 5 Volumes, complete

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1930.

5 Volumes, complete. Thick 8vo. (xxiv), 529, [1 black]; (xiv), 522; (xxii), 436; (xiv), 552; (xx); 426 pp. Frontispiece portrait of de Anza, 53 illustrations, 10 maps (7 folding), index; offsetting to copyright page and dedication page, and pages 72-80, at the end has been laid in several pieces of paper as noted below, the typed letter from Bolton to Gantner was at one time stapled to a front fly-leaf with staples, now removed, but staple punctures affect the fly-leaf and a few leaves following. Full navy buckram, spine titled and decorated in gilt; bindings square and tight, some light rubbing (truncated) and shelf-wear. INSCRIBED by H. E. Bolton to Mrs. Vallejo Gantner. SR524-001. Very Good.

FIRST EDITION. "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 settlement 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 and his associates in this publication. Incidentally I agree with Bolton in his assertion that the Font long diary of the 1776 expedition contained herein is the greatest single diary of exploration in the history of Latin America." Phil Townsend Hanna in The Zamorano 80.

Other volumes include:

Vol. II: Opening a Land Route to California; Diaries of Anza, Díaz, Garcés, and Palóu. Frontispiece, 32 illustrations, index; text clean, unmarked, occasional light foxing, mostly to the margins.

Vol. III: The San Francisco Colony; Diaries of Anza, Font, and Exarch, and Narratives by Palóu and Moraga. Frontispiece, 21 illustrations, index; text clean, unmarked, light scattered foxing.

Vol. IV: Font's Complete Diary of the Second Anza Expedition. Frontispiece, 33 illustrations, folding map, index; text clean, unmarked.

Vol. V: Correspondence. 12 illustrations, index; staple holes in page opposite title page where letter from Bolton to Gantner was once attached (now removed), affects title page and next few leaves following, text clean, unmarked, light scattered foxing, 1/2-inch spot on top edge of text block bleeds about 1/8-inch into the upper margins. (Inventory #: SR524-001)