Narratives of the career of Hernando de Soto in the conquest of Florida / as told by a knight of Elvas and in a relation by Luys Hernandez de Biedma ; translated by Buckingham Smith.
| Author/creator |
Knight of Elvas |
| Other author/creator | Hernández de Biedma, Luys. |
| Other author/creator | Smith, Buckingham, 1810-1871. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | New York : [Bradford Club], 1866. |
| Description | xxviii, 324 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill., map, port., facsim. ; 27 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Gale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926 |
| Subject(s) |
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| Uniform title | Relaçam verdadeira. English |
| Series | Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926 Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | The Bradford club -- Life of Soto -- Proem -- True relation of the vicissitudes that attended the governor Don Hernando de Soto and some nobles of Portugal in the discovery of the province of Florida / now just given by a fidalgo of Elvas. Index of the chapters contained in the Discovery of Florida (p. 1-210) -- Annotations / made by the translator to matters in the Relaçam (p. [211]-228) -- Relation of the conquest of Florida / presented by Luys Hernandez de Biedma in the year 1544 to the King of Spain in council ; translated from the original document (p. [229]-261) -- Appendix. Translations [of letters, official documents and royal decrees] (p. [263]-312) -- Index (p. [313]-324). |
| Abstract | Describes Hernando de Soto's march of conquest in Florida and other parts of southeastern North America. |
| Local note | Biography; Colonization. |
| Local note | 2011AE02700. |
| Local note | Biography; Colonization. |
| Local note | 2011AE02700. |
| General note | "This book is a translation of the original Portuguese Relaçam verdadeira dos trabalhos q̄ ho gouernador dõ Fernãdo de souto e certos fidalgos portugueses passarom no descubrimẽto da prouincia da Frolida. Agora novamẽte feita per hũ fidalgo Deluas, printed at Evora in the year 1557."--Proem, p. [xxvii]. |
| General note | 125 copies printed. |
| General note | Title-vignette. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society. |
| General note | Sabin no. 87206. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, 2012. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
| Other title | True relation of the vicissitudes that attended the governor Don Hernando de Soto and some nobles of Portugal in the discovery of the province of Florida. |
| Other title | Discovery of Florida. |
| Other title | Relation of the conquest of Florida. |
| Other title | Account of the island of Florida. |
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