Relation of Nunez Cabeza de Vaca /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century
Other Authors:	Smith, Buckingham, 1810-1871
Format:	Book
Language:	English Spanish
Published:	Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University Microfilms, [1966]
Series:	March of America facsimile series, no. 9
Subjects:	Narváez, Pánfilo de, > -1528. Indians of North America. America > Discovery and exploration > Spanish. America > Early works to 1800.

Description
Item Description:	Original title page has imprint: New York, 1871. The 1st Spanish edition 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 edition is a revision of B. Smith's translation privately printed at Washington in 1851 from the second Spanish edition published at Valladolid, 1555. "Alva[r] Nunez Cabeca de Vaca [by T. W. Field]": pages 233-254. "Memoir of Thomas Buckingham Smith [by J. G. Shea]": pages [225]-263. The appendix includes translations of various Spanish documents relating to the expedition of Narvaez and its historian.
Physical Description:	300 pages : portraits ; 22 cm.