Histoire d'un voyage faict en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique
Contenant la nauigation, & choses remarquables, veuës sur mer par l'aucteur. Le comportement de Villegagnon en ce pays la. Les moeurs & fac̦ons de viure estranges des sauuages ameriquains: auec vn colloque de leur langage. Ensemble la description de plusieurs animaux, arbres, herbes, & autres choses singulieres, & du tout inco[n]nues pardec̦à: dont on verra les sommaires des chapitres au commencement du liure
by Jean de Léry
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Histoire d'un voyage faict en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique: Contenant la nauigation, & choses remarquables, veuës sur mer par l'aucteur. Le comportement de Villegagnon en ce pays la. Les moeurs & fac̦ons de viure estranges des sauuages ameriquains: auec vn colloque de leur langage. Ensemble la description de plusieurs animaux, arbres, herbes, & autres choses singulieres, & du tout inco[n]nues pardec̦à: dont on verra les sommaires des chapitres au commencement du liure
1580, Pour Antoine Chuppin
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First printed in La Rochelle, 1578.
Edition statement appears before statement of responsibility on title page.
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, & Toupinnkin en langage sauuage & François", p. 306-338, 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.
Signatures: A-2D⁸ (C6 verso blank) 2E⁴ (2E4 verso blank)
Woodcut head and tail pieces; initials.
Includes woodcut full page illustrations of the Tupi Indians.
Errata statement: p. [13], 3rd count.
Includes index.
Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.) I: p. 470.
Alden, J.E. European Americana, 580/41.
JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I:279.
John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: wanting p. [7-14], 3rd count, of the index; available in facsimile and housed in the JCB bibliographical file.
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