Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeca de Vaca.
Item #82091
CABECA DE VACA, Alvar Nunez. SMITH, Buckingham (trans.). Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeca de Vaca. New York: [J. Munsell], 1871. Limited ed. 4to. x, [2], [11]-300 pp., frontis., port. In modern calf-backed cloth boards. Binding is fresh. Previous owner name obscured on the title page. Contents with dampstaining including a pronounced tideline to bottom margin of the pages throughout, occasionally touching text, else very good. Sabin 84383. Field 229. Limited edition of only 100 copies. "With the possible exception of Benavides' `Memorial,' the `Relation' of Cabeca de Vaca is probably the most important of the early works on the western country" - Eberstadt 104-036. Smith died while this edition was in the press and Field praises it as "a fitting monument to the earnest scholar and gentleman who first made the valuable Relations of Cabeca available to those who could not read it in the original." Scarce in this edition.
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