WHITEHEAD, Richard S. Alta California's Four Fortresses. Item #5922
[24] p., 12"x9"; sewn & printed gold Yapp wrappers; floorplans. Los Angeles: Zamorano Club, 1986. Offprint of article originally appearing in Southern California Quarterly, LXV (Spring 1983), the publication of the Historical Society of Southern California. The four fortresses treated are the Presidios of San Diego (1769), Monterey (1770), San Francisco (1776) and Santa Barbara (1782). Upper leading corner very gently creased, else fine. |