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2013rif. 332853New York: W.W. Norton & Company 2013. Paperback. xiv 223p. first edition softbound in 8x5 inch glossy decorated wraps. A fine really as-new copy: entirely sound clean and unmarked. Norton Critical editions. In older English-language recensions Cabeza de Vaca discovered he could heal Native American illnesses; he was merely by his presence a hands-on kings-evil type of healer. These most recent critics ignore that element in his narrative or dismiss it as fantasy or as bloated memory. W.W. Norton & Company paperback books
2013rif. TB32585Chicago: The Lakeside Press 2013. First Edition. Fine in blue-green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine gilt borders on the front and rear boards and a gilt company logo on the front board with green printed end sheets. A 16mo measuring 6 3/4" by 4 1/4" with upper and lower headbands and with the top edge of the text block gilt. Without a dust jacket as issued; however the book is still contained within the publisher's original shrink wrap protection. 186 pages including an index and followed by a page of image credits. Illustrated with maps some in color a color frontispiece and numerous engravings and plates from earlier works of art. The Lakeside Press hardcover books
1972rif. 587712Barre Massachusetts: The Imprint Society 1972. Hardcover. Fine. Imprint Society reprint. Translated by Fanny Bandelier. Introduction by John Francis Bannon. Illustrations by Michael McCurdy. Fine in a rubbed and lightly soiled very good dust jacket with a couple of small chips along the edges with one side printed upside down. From an edition of 1950 copies this copy unnumbered Signed by the illustrator. The Imprint Society hardcover books
2012rif. SKU0566725W. W. Norton & Company 2012-10-25. paperback. Good. 5x0x8. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLY-NO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Tracking W. W. Norton & Company paperback
2012rif. SKU0614232W. W. Norton & Company 2012-10-25. paperback. New. 5x0x8. New Textbook Ships with Tracking W. W. Norton & Company paperback
2012rif. Q-0393918157W. W. Norton & Company 2012-10-25. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! W. W. Norton & Company paperback
2013rif. 140818Allentown Pa: R. R. Donnelley & Songs Company 2013. Hardcover. fine. lii 188pp. Sextodecimo bound in green boards with gold gilt rules decoration and lettering to front and spine. Patterned endpapers illustrations gilt to top of text block. Illustrated fine. fine Cabeza de Vaca was one of the four survivors of the disastrous Narvaez venture through Florida. 2013 R. R. Donnelley & Songs Company hardcover
1980rif. BN643029Fayard 1980. 1980. Naufrages et relation du voyage fait en Floride ; Commentaires de l'adelantado et gouverneur du Rio de la Plata La Bibliotheque des voyageurs French Edition Naufrages et relation du voyage fait en Floride ; Commentaires de l'adelantado et gouverneur du Rio de la Plata La Bibliotheque des voyageurs French Edition Cabeza de Vaca Alvar Nunez Fayard unknown
rif. 1547130156.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1906rif. 50036Madrid. 1906. Later edition of the famous narrative of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca first published in 1542. Cabeza de Vaca gives an account of his expedition to Florida in 1527 his capture by and escape from Indians 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. A foundation work on Texas and the Southwest. The second part describes his career as governor of La Plata in South America. Original paper printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled. Volume one with repair tape on spine small tear on front wrapper. Later ownership stamp on front flyleaves. Text block cracked in volume one. Small section loose but attached on volume two. Good. unknown
1929rif. 45963San Francisco: Grabhorn Press. Near Fine. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 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 Alvar 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 . 1929. Grabhorn Press hardcover
2010rif. TA230923012Z48Dodo Press 2010-03-18. paperback. Like New. 6x0x9. Paperback--no flaws Dodo Press paperback
rif. 140997913X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2011rif. Q-0486431800Dover Publications 2011-11-02. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Dover Publications paperback
1972rif. 587712Barre Massachusetts: The Imprint Society 1972. Hardcover. Fine. Imprint Society reprint. Translated by Fanny Bandelier. Introduction by John Francis Bannon. Illustrations by Michael McCurdy. Fine in a rubbed and lightly soiled very good dust jacket with a couple of small chips along the edges with one side printed upside down. From an edition of 1950 copies this copy unnumbered Signed by the illustrator. The Imprint Society hardcover
rif. 0803215282.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
2011rif. 051081Albuquerque N.M.: University of New Mexico Press 2011. 1st . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 240pp.incl.index; HB blk.w/silver; fine condition w/cleantight pgs. DJ lt.brwn.w/white-pic.cover; fine. "This book is one of the great first-person accounts of the Spanish conquest of the Americas in the sixteenth century." illus.section. signed by Morrow. University of New Mexico Press hardcover
1871rif. 57834New York. 1871. One of 100 Copies 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. 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. FIELD 229. SABIN 9771 note. hardcover books
1871rif. 57834New York. 1871. One of 100 Copies 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. 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. FIELD 229. SABIN 9771 note. hardcover
1871rif. 820911871. 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. unknown
1929rif. 72808San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1929. One of 300 numbered copies. Quarto. 8 122 2 pp. with hand-colored decorations by Valenti Angelo. Publisher's buff boards with spine lettering. Custom slipcase by William Wheeler. Aside from a bit of sunning to spine a very fresh and clean copy in a like binding.Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer of the New World and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narvaez expedition. During eight years of traveling across the US Southwest he became a trader and faith healer to various Native American tribes before reconnecting with Spanish colonial forces in Mexico in 1536. After returning to Spain in 1537 he wrote an account first published in 1542 as La Relacion. Cabeza de Vaca has been considered notable as a proto-anthropologist for his detailed accounts of the many tribes of American Indians that he encountered. Grabhorn Press hardcover
1925rif. 40380Stuttgart : Strecker & Schröder 1925. reliure d'éditeur sous jaquette. Cabeça de Vaca Alvar Nunez de.Schiffbrüche. Die Unglücksfahrt der Narvaez-Expedition nach der Südküste Nordamerikas in den Jahren 1528 bis 1536. Überstetz und einleleitet von Dr. Franz Termer. Mit 21 Abbildungen und 2 Karten. Stuttgart Strecker & Schröder1925 220x150mm 141 Seiten Verlegereinband mit Umschlag. In gutem Zustand. No hidden customs fees for orders shipped to the U.S.A with a value of up to 800 USD PDDP shipping we pay the VAT in advance Strecker & Schröder unknown
1980rif. R300270029Actes Sud. 1980. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 206 pages. Une carte en noir et blanc hors texte. Plats contrepliés en un rabat.. . . . Classification Dewey : 860-Littératures espagnole et portugaise
1980rif. 1204851980 Editions Fayard, Collection "La Bibliothèque des Voyageurs" - 1980 - In-8, broché, couverture à rabats illustrée - 378 p.
rif. 40380Stuttgart, Strecker & Schröder 1925, 220x150mm, 141Seiten, Verlegereinband mit Umschlag. In gutem Zustand.
