Examen apologetico de la historica narracion de los naufragios, peregrinaciones, i milagros de Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Baca, en las tierras de la Florida, i del Nuevo Mexico. : Contra la incierta, i mal reparada censura del P. Honorio Filipono, o del que puso en su nombre, el libro intitulado: Nova typis transacta navigatio Novi Orbis Indiae Occidentalis, Adm. R.R.P.P. ac F.F. Rev. ac Ilmo. Buellio Catalani, abbatis Montiferrati, & in universam americam, seu Novum Orbem S.S. apostolicae legati

Antonio Ardoino;  Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

Con las licencias necesarias. En Madrid : En la imprenta de Juan de Zuniga [Joaquiưn Ibarra]  [1736, 1749]

[Early Spanish edition describing the first Spanish exploration of Texas and the Southwest.]  Handsome folio, 31 cm.  Bound in fine modern calf, gilt ruled and lettered.  Generally very good, occasional minor foxing.  All edges dyed red.  Text printed in two columns.  Collated: [2], 50, 43, [9], 70, [2] pages. Refs: Palau 105051; Sabin 9771 

Also includes the "Naufragios de Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, y relation de la Jornada" and the "Comentarios de Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca," a reprint of Vaca's narrative of the voyage of Pamphilo (Panfilo) de Narvaez in 1523 from the coast of Florida to the Spanish settlements of Sinora and Sinaloa on the Pacific.  Vaca was one of the few survivors and his accounts provide one of the first records of native peoples the Spanish explorers encountered. 

Provenance: Bruce McKinney's copy.  Butterfield & Butterfield auction, 23 Feb. 1995, lot 903; Bonham's American Experience sale, 2 Dec 2010, lot 62.