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La Relación - page 1

The Account and Commentaries of Governor Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, of what occurred on the two journeys that he made to the Indies.

With privilege.

Priced by the Lords of the Council
At eighty-five maravedís

1542 Title Page Image

The 1542 edition title page is reproduced in The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca. Translated by Fanny Bandelier and edited with an introduction by Ad. F. Bandelier. Allerton Book Co, NY. MCMXXII (copyright 1904 by Williams-Barker Co.)

1555 Edition: Photos of Our Copy

The 1555 edition of Cabeza de Vaca's La relación y comentarios measures 5-3/8 inches across and 7-3/8 inches tall. The book contains 144 numbered leaves and was rebound with a leather cover sometime in the late 1700s or early 1800s.

1625 Edition

In 1625 Englishman Samuel Purchas published an anthology of exploration literature titled Purchas: His Pilgrimage. Included in the pages was the first-ever English translation of Cabeza de Vaca's account:

"A Relation of Alvaro Nunez Called Capo di…

A Brief History of Cabeza de Vaca and La Relación

A seventeenth-century coat of arms of the House of Cabeza de Vaca

A seventeenth-century coat of arms of the House of Cabeza de Vaca. By permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.

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Art of Cabeza de Vaca

Cabeza de Vaca and a handful of other survivors wash ashore on what would later be known as Galveston Island. By Barbara Whitehead. Southwestern Writers Collection, Texas State University-San Marcos.

Cabeza de Vaca depicted as a healer on a mural in the town hall at Ojinaga, in Chihuahua, Mexico. It commemorates his stay at the junction of the rivers in the summer of 1535. From Conquistadors by Michael Wood. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

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