Relation of Nunez Cabeza de Vaca. [Translated from the Spanish by Buckingham Smith]

Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, 16th century.

Relation of Nunez Cabeza de Vaca. [Translated from the Spanish by Buckingham Smith] - Ann Arbor [MI] : University Microfilms [1966] - 300 p. : ports. ; 22 cm. - March of America facsimile series, no. 9. .

Original t.p. has imprint: New York, 1871. The 1st Spanish ed. was published at Zamora in 1542, under title: "La relacion que dio Aluar Nunez Cabeca de Vaca de lo acaescido en las Indias en la armada donde yua por Gouernador Paphilo de Narbaez desde el ano de veynte y siete hasta el ano de treynta y seys ..." The present ed. is a revision of B. Smith's translation privately printed at Washington in 1851 from the second Spanish ed. published at Valladolid, 1555. "Alva[r] Nunez Cabeac de Vaca [by T.W. Field]": p. 233-254. "Memoir of Thomas Buckingham Smith [by J.G. Shea]": p. [255]-263. The appendix includes translations of various Spanish documents relating to the expedition of Narvaez and its historian.

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Narvaez, Panfilo de, d. 1528.


Indians of North America.


America Discovery & exploration Spanish.
America Early accounts to 1600.