Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeca de Vaca.
By: Tr. from the Spanish by Buckingham Smith ...
Contributors: Smith, Buckingham, 1810-1871.; Field, Thomas W. 1820-1881.; Shea, John Gilmary, 1824-1892.
Series: Western Americana, 1550-1900 -- reel 395, no. 3969.
Publisher: Printed by J. Munsell for H.C. Murphy]
Published: 1871
Place of publication: New York; [Albany
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Narváez, Pánfilo de, -- d. 1528; Indians of North America; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish; America -- Early works to 1600
Genres: Early works to 1600.
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[!] Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca [by T.W. Field]": p. 233-354.

Memoir of Thomas Buckingham Smith [by J.G. Shea]": p. [255]-263.

"Edition, 100 copies only."

Microfilm. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1975. 1 reel ; 35 mm. (Western Americana ; Reel 395, no. 3969)

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