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Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca / translated from the Spanish by Buckingham Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century.
- 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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