Engelhardt, Zephyrin

San Gabriel Mission and the Beginnings of Los Angeles

San Gabriel, CA: Mission San Gabriel, 1927.

First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The Missions and Missionaries of California, New Series, Local History. xiv, 369 pp, with frontispiece, illustrations, maps, index. Gilt-decorated boards show minor shelf wear; contents clean and sound. Mission San Gabriel was the northernmost of the four missions under the military jurisdiction of the Presidio at San Diego. Englehardt asserts in the introduction that not only will he cover the history of the mission but "readers will also, for the first time, from this volume learn the true facts about the founding of Los Angeles."

Item #24089

Price: $40.00