Narratives of the career of Hernando de Soto in the conquest of Florida / as told by a knight of Elvas, and in a relation by Luys Hernandez de Biedma factor of the expedition ; Translated by Buckingham Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Buckingham, 1810-1871, translator.

Robert Dechert Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Bradford Club series ; no. 5.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soto, Hernando de, approximately 1500-1542.

Soto, Hernando de.

Discoveries in geography.

Florida--Discovery and exploration.

Florida.

Penn Provenance:

Dechert, Robert (donor)

Physical Description:

xxviii, 324 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, facsimile, map, portrait ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : [publisher not identified], 1866.

Contents:

The Bradford club

Life of Soto

Proem

True relation of the viscitudes that attended the governor Don Hernando de Soto and some nobles of Portugal in the discovery of the province of Florida, now just given by a fidalgo of Elvas

Annotations made by the translator to matters in the Relaçam

Relation of the conquest of Florida, presented by Luys Hernandez de Bledma in the year 1544 to the king of Spain in council. Tr. from the original document

Appendix. Translations [of letters, official documents and royal decrees]

Index.

Notes:

"This book is a translation of the original Portuguese Relaçam verdadeïra dos trabalhos q̂ ho gouernador dô Fernâdo de souto e certos fidalgos portugueses passarom no descubrimêto da prouincia da Frolida. Agora novamête feita per hû fidalgo Deluas, printed at Evora in the year 1557."--Proem.

Half-title: Bradford Club series. Number five.

Title page printed in red and black.

Map, compiled by J.C. Brevoort, signed: J. Bien, lith., N.Y.

Copyright 1866 by John B. Moreau for the Bradford Club.

Includes indexes.

125 copies.

Local Notes:

Club copy. No. 28.

Cited in:

Palau, 320225

Sabin, 87206

OCLC:

1497867