Font's Complete Diary: A Chronicle of the Founding of San Francisco (with Prospectus)
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xix, 552pp. Photo-illustrations; maps (one large fold-out). Blue cloth with gilt lettering in scarce double dustjackets (cream illustrated with crest and lettering; plain brown paper). Single sheet, folded, Prospectus from the publisher, laid in. A fine copy in near fine dustjackets (small chips and short closed tears at spine head and upper front cover). Item #10099
Translated from the original Spanish Manuscript of Father Pedro Font's Complete Diary (he wrote an official record in the Short Diary) covering the entire second Anza expedition from Horcasitas and back. "First published as Volume IV in Bolton, 'Anza's California Expeditions,' of which this volume is a reprint." - Rocq 9398.
Price: $200.00