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Historia navigationis in Brasiliam quae et America dicitur [electronic resource] : Qua describitur authoris nauigatio, quaeque in mari vidit memoriae prodenda: Villagagnonis in America gesta: Brasiliensium victus & mores, à nostris admodum alieni, cum eorum linguae dialogo: animalia etiam, arbores, atque herbae reliquáque singularia & nobis penitus incognita. / a Joanne Lerio Burgundo Gallicè scripta. Nunc verò primùm Latinitate donata, & varijs figuris illustrata

Author
Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611
Uniform Title
Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Brésil. Latin
Published
Genevae : Apud haeredes Eustathij Vignon, M D XCIIII. [1594]
Edition
Secunda editio.
Physical Description
58 unnumbered pages, 230, 213-340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations, music ; 17 cm (8vo)
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Collection
John Carter Brown Library - Indigenous Collection (Internet Archive)
Note
Translation, by Urbain Chauveton, of: Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique, first printed La Rochelle, 1578, but containing material suppressed there. First Latin edition was printed in Geneva, 1586.
Roman numeral date on title page made with reverse C's.
The author gives an account of Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon's colony in Brazil and the Tupi Indians who inhabited the country.
"Colloquium in ipso aditu Brasiliensis orae inter indigenas Tououpinambaultios Tououpinenkin Brasilicè ac Latina è conscriptum", pages 271-297, contains numerous phrases in the Tupi language translated into the Latin language, a discussion of grammar with examples, and a comparative glossary of words in Tupi and Latin. 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 pages 128, 140, 214, 219, and 220.
Signatures: * (*1 verso blank) a-z (h2 missigned k2) A-C (C8 verso blank)
Woodcut printer's ornaments on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.
Includes index.
Reviewed/Cited In
Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.), I: p. 471.
Alden, J.E. European Americana 594/32.
JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I:334.
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