Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, dite Amerique
Contenant la nauigation & choses remarquables, veues sur mer par l'autheur. Le comportement de Villegagnon en ce pays la. Les moeurs & façons de viure estranges des sauuages bresiliens: auec vn colloque de leur langage. Ensemble la description de plusieurs animaux, poissons difformes, arbres, herbes, fruicts, & racines, & autres choses singulieres, & au tout incognues par deça, dont on verra les sommaires des chapitres au deuant la preface. Auec les figures, reueue, corrigee & encores de nouueau bien augmentee par l'autheur
by Jean de Léry
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First printed La Rochelle, 1578.
Edition statement appears before statement of responsibility on title page.
Actuality the seventh French edition. The sixth French edition was printed in Geneva, 1600. Cf. Moraes.
The author gives an account of Nicolas Durand de Villegagnon's colony in Brazil and the Tupi Indians who inhabited the country.
"Colloque de l'entree ou arriuee en la terre du Bresil, entre les gens du pays nommez Tououpinambaoults, & Toupinenkins en langage sauuage & François", p. 410-433, contains numerous phrases in the Tupi language translated into the French language, a discussion of grammar with examples, and a comparative glossary of words in Tupi and French. There are also numerous words and phrases in the Tupi language scattered throughout the text.
Includes musical notations with words in the Tupi language on p. 191, 315, and 322-323.
Signatures: a-e⁸ (a1, e8 versos blank) A-2H⁸ (B3 missigned C3) 2I⁴
Woodcut printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.
Includes index.
Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.), I: p. 472.
Alden, J.E. European Americana, 611/65.
JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, II:76.
Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: H.T. [i.e. Henri Ternaux-Compans]: binding stamps on front and rear boards; Congreg. St. Mauri: ms. inscription on title page.
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