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Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Reprint. Reprint edition. 1968. 324 pp. including index. Palmetto Books. Trade paperback firm wrappers. Near fine condition. Spine tight. Pages clean. Price sticker mark on front cover. Introduction by Andrew Lyle. Story as told by a Gentleman of Elvas and in a relation by Luys Hernandez de Biedma.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good - Cash. General use wear, surface and edges rubbed. Corners bumped and show wear. Pages show reader wear. Normal age yellowing to the cover and pages. The cover has a plasitic cover for protection. Some peeling to the cover iwth smudging where tape may have been. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Thus. Travel and Exploration, Native American, Most Recent Listing; (viii), 122, (2) pages; Number 47 of a limited edition of only 300 copies. With hand-colored decorations by Valenti Angelo. Publisher's cream coloured boards with gilt spine lettering in slipcase. Some rubbing at spine, otherwise near fine in very good slipcase with some minor rubbing. Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narvaez expedition. La Relacion de AÂlvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca ("The Story of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca") is the account of his experiences with the Narvaez expedition and after being wrecked on Galveston Island in November 1528. Cabeza de Vaca and his last three men struggled to survive. They wandered along the Texas coast as prisoners of the Han and Capoque American Indians for two years, while Cabeza de Vaca observed the people, picking up their ways of life and customs. They traveled through the American Southwest and ultimately reached Mexico City, nearly eight years after being wrecked on the island. In 1537, Cabeza de Vaca returned to Spain, where he wrote his narratives of the Narvaez expedition. These narratives were collected and published in 1542 in Spain. The narrative of Cabeza de Vaca is the "first European book devoted completely to North America. " His detailed account describes the lives of numerous tribes of American Indians of the time. Cabeza de Vaca showed compassion and respect for native peoples, which, together with the great detail he recorded, distinguishes his narrative from others of the period. Cabeza de Vaca reported on the customs and ways of American Indian life, aware of his status as an early European explorer. He spent eight years with various peoples, including the Capoque, Han, Avavare, and Arbadao. He describes details of the culture of the Malhado people, the Capoque, and Han American Indians, such as their treatment of offspring, their wedding rites, and their main sources of food. Cabeza de Vaca and his three fellow survivors at times served as slaves to the American Indians to survive. Through his observations, Cabeza de Vaca provides insights into 16th-century American Indian life near the present-day Mexico-Texas border. For many peoples, the accounts of Cabeza de Vaca and Hernando de Soto are the only written records of their existence. By the time of the next European contact, many had vanished, possibly from diseases carried by Cabeza de Vaca and his companions. One of Cabeza de Vaca's greatest accomplishments in his journey was bringing peace throughout the land. As the travellers passed from one tribe to the next, warring tribes would immediately make peace and become friendly, so that the natives could receive the party and give them gifts. Cabeza noted in his personal account of the journey that, in this way, "We left the whole country in peace. " Cabeza de Vaca saw these events as part of his purpose in America, writing that he believed that "God was guiding us to where we could serve Him. " Cabeza de Vaca's greatest challenge as an ambassador came when he attempted to bring peace between the conquering Spanish army and the natives. As Cabeza approached the area of Spanish settlement, he and his companions grieved to see the destruction of the native villages and enslavement of the native peoples. The fertile land lay uncultivated and the natives were nearly starving, hiding in the forest, for fear of the Spanish army. Cabeza de Vaca then encountered Diego de Alcaraz, commander of a slaving expedition of about 20 horsemen, and attempted to negotiate peace between them and the natives. However, as soon as they departed, Alcaraz went back on his word and plundered Cabeza de Vaca's entourage of natives that he had sent back home. Not long afterward, Cabeza de Vaca encountered the chief alcalde (Spanish captain of the province) , Melchor Diaz. Diaz ordered Cabeza de Vaca.…

Condition: Good. 8vo. Original salmon paper covered boards; repaired with some some loss of text on the spine. 8vo. 14 x 23cm.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:3007987."At mid-16th entury, a thirteen-year old Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda shipwrecked on the FloridaKeys. On his way to Spain, where he had been born, to start his formal education, Fontaneda wascaptured by the Florida Indians and lived amongst them for seventeen years, traveling with theIndians, learning native culture, and acquiring valuable knowledge about the Florida peninsula. His1575 account, or "Memoir," describes the rugged environment, flora and fauna, foodways,geographic and ethnic regions.Before Fontaneda's arrival, others sought gold and a river of eternal youth in Florida. However,Fontaneda's experience in La Florida had him in desire of other things-valuable pearls around theSouthern coast of Florida, cattle and Spanish supremacy over the Florida natives.Historically, Fontaneda's account provides the city of Tampa's earliest written mention ("Tanpa") aswell as the names of the important villages of the Calusa. Also, this document is instrumental tothe development of the fountain of youth legend, as it contains one of the earliest mentions of JuanPonce de León's search for the healing waters of Florida.Many Spaniards on cross-Atlantic trade routes had shipwrecked on the Florida Cays or sandbarsand coral reefs like Fontaneda. He had shipwrecked on what is known today as the Florida Keys,but were then the Martyrs (Martires) because so "many [Spanish] men have suffered from them."This text by Alisa Roberts, University of South Florid, St. Petersburg.…

The greatly expanded, posthumously-published second edition of Buckingham Smith's translation of Cabeça de Vaca, from an edition limited to 100 copies. The original text describes the first recorded journey by Europeans across North America, recounting the author's adventures with the Narvaez expedition to Florida in 1527, his capture and escape from natives on the Mississippi coast, and his later overland journey across Texas before finally making his way back to Spanish controlled lands in Mexico. The original work was the first on Texas, and the first American travel account. This edition is greatly expanded from the original (which was also published in a limited edition of 100 copies) of 1851, and includes nearly one hundred pages of Smith's notes and additions. Buckingham Smith was an eminent scholar of Spanish America as well as a slaveholder who nonetheless sided with the Union during the Civil War. After his death, he dedicated his estate to the establishment of the Buckingham Smith Benevolent Association, an organization which was dedicated to supporting African Americans in St. Augustine, and which continues to carry out that mission today. "The sudden death of the talented translator, occurring while these sheets were passing through the press, filled the hearts of many bibliophiles with sadness" - Field. This copy bears the bookplate of "Mrs. John V. L. Pruyn" (i.e. Anna Fenn Parker) on the front pastedown. John Pruyn was a businessman from Albany who represented New York as a pro-Union Democrat in the House from 1863-1865, and again from 1867-1869. He also laid the first stone in the New York State Capitol, and was Chancellor of the Board of Regents for the University of the State of New York from 1862 to 1877. Anna Fenn Parker (1840-1909) was his second wife, and the daughter of the prominent upstate New York lawyer, judge, and congressman, Amasa J. Parker. FIELD 229. SABIN 9771 (note). Large octavo. Contemporary brown cloth, printed paper label, expertly rebacked with most of original backstrip laid down. Paper label chipped, with about half missing; corners neatly repaired. Offsetting from the frontispiece onto the titlepage, a bit of light tanning toward the front. Bookplate of Mrs. John V.L. Pruyn on front pastedown (see below). Very good. Untrimmed. In a green cloth clamshell case, printed paper label.…