Description: Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeca de Vaca

Main Author:	Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century.
Other Authors:	Smith, Buckingham, 1810-1871., Field, Thomas W. 1820-1881., Shea, John Gilmary, 1824-1892.
Format:	Microfilm
Language:	English Spanish
Published:	New York ; [Albany :] : [Printed by J. Munsell for H.C. Murphy], 1871.
Physical Description:	x pages, 1 leaf, 11 unnumbered pages-300 pages : frontispiece (portrait) ; 28 cm.
Subjects:	Narváez, Pánfilo de, -- -1528. Indians of North America. America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish. America -- Early accounts to 1600.

Item Description:	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)
Physical Description:	x pages, 1 leaf, 11 unnumbered pages-300 pages : frontispiece (portrait) ; 28 cm.