Relation that Alvar Nunez Cabeça de Vaca Gave of What Befel the Armament in the Indias. Printed from the Buckingham Smith translation of 1871.

San 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.