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Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca

Title
Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca, tr. from the Spanish by Buckingham Smith ...
Author
Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century.
Publication
New York [Albany, Printed by J. Munsell for H.C. Murphy] 1871.

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  • Smith, Buckingham, 1810-1871.
  • Field, Thomas W. (Thomas Warren), 1820-1881.
  • Shea, John Gilmary, 1824-1892.
Description
x p., 1 l., [11]-300 p. 2 port. (incl. front.); 28 cm.
Subjects
Note
  • Memoir of Thomas Buckingham Smith [by J.G. Shea]": p. [255]- 263.
  • 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 Pãphilo 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 tanslation privately printed at Washington in 1851.
  • The appendix includes translations of various Spanish documents relating to the expedition of Narváez and its historian.
  • "Alva[r] Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca [by T.W. Field]": p. 233-254.
Call Number
Stuart 5962
LCCN
06043552
OCLC
1490612
Author
Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century.
Title
Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca, tr. from the Spanish by Buckingham Smith ...
Imprint
New York [Albany, Printed by J. Munsell for H.C. Murphy] 1871.
Local Note
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Smith, Buckingham, 1810-1871.
Field, Thomas W. (Thomas Warren), 1820-1881.
Shea, John Gilmary, 1824-1892.
Research Call Number
Stuart 5962
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