Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion on cover, t.e.g. Illustrated in Color and B&W. Text in both English and Spanish. Illustrated with a two-page color frontispiece, 12 color plates, two color maps and several B&W illustrations. Translated by George P. Hammond and Agapito Rey. Edited by John Miller Morris. Includes extensive Historical Introduction by the editor. Castanedas account ranks with the log of Columbus and the Relation of Sotos expedition by A Gentleman of Elvas as one of the most important documents on the early European exploration of North America. Pedro de Castaeda, a member and chronicler of the Coronado expedition (1540-1542), was a native of Njera, a town in the state of Vizcaya in northern Spain. At the time of the organization of the Coronado expedition, Castaeda was at a Spanish outpost at Culiacn, in northwestern Mexico. He was married and had at least eight children. Castaeda's original account, Relacin de la jornada de Cbola compuesta por Pedro de Castaeda de Ncera donde se trata de todas aquellos poblados y ritos, y costumbres, la cual fu el ao de 1540, has been lost, but a copy made in 1596 is in the Lenox Library in New York City. . This volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square and clean; still in original shrink-wrap. NEW. . The Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 100. Color Plates and Maps. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. cxv, 421 pp