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Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca
Relación que dio Aluar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca de lo acaescido enlas Indias enla armada donde yua por gouernador Paphilo de Narbaez, desde el año de veynte y siete hasta el año d'treynta y seys que boluio a Seuilla con tres de su compañia. English
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- Creator
- translated from the Spanish by Buckingham Smith
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- English
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- New York ; [Albany : Printed by J. Munsell for H.C. Murphy], 1871
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- 1 online resource (300 p., [2] leaves of plates ) ports.
- OCLC
- ocm85795404
- A translation of the first edition, published at Zamora in 1542, under title: "Le relacion que dio Aluar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca de lo acaescido enlas Indias enla armada donde yua por gouernador Paphilo de Narbaez, desde el año de veynte y siete hasta el año d treynta y seys ... ." The present edition is a revision of B. Smith's translation privately printed at Washington in 1851.
- The appendix includes translations of various Spanish documents relating to the expedition of Narváez and its historian.
- "Alva[sic] Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca [by T.W. Field]": p. 233-354.
- Memoir of Thomas Buckingham Smith [by J.G. Shea]": p. [255]-263.
- Includes index.
- Title-vignette.
- "Edition, 100 copies only."--T.p., verso.
- Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
- Sabin no. 84383.
- Includes bibliographical references.