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Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca / translated from the Spanish by Buckingham Smith.

Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500–1926 Available online

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Book
Author/Creator:
Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century.
Contributor:
Smith, Buckingham, 1810-1871.
Field, Thomas W. (Thomas Warren), 1820-1881.
Shea, John Gilmary, 1824-1892.
Series:
Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Standardized Title:
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
Language:
English
Spanish
Subjects (All):
Indians of North America--Early works to 1800.
Indians of North America.
America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish--Early works to 1800.
America.
America--Early works to 1800--Early works to 1800.
Narváez, Pánfilo de, -1528.
Narváez, Pánfilo de.
Smith, Buckingham, 1810-1871.
Smith, Buckingham.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (300 p., [2] leaves of plates ) ports. ;
Place of Publication:
New York ; [Albany : Printed by J. Munsell for H.C. Murphy], 1871.
Notes:
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.
OCLC:
11

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