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Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, dite Amerique. : Contenant la nauigation, & choses remarquables, veuës sur mer par l'autheur. Le comportement de Villegagnon en ce païs la. Les moeurs & façons de viure estranges des sauuages bresiliens: auec vn colloque de leur langage. Ensemble la description de plusieurs animaux, poissons, diformes, arbres, herbes, fruicts, racines, & autres choses singulieres, & du tout incognues par deçà: dont on verra les sommaires des chapitres au commencement du liure. Auec les figures, reueue, corrigee & bien augmentee par l'autheur.

by: Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611; Ulrich, Georg. fmo RIBRL

Publication date: 1600

Topics: Villegaignon, Nicolas Durand de, 1510-1571?, Indians of South America, Indians of South America, Tupi Indians, Tupi Indians, Tupi language, Tupi language, Natural history, Indian linguistics, Imprint 1600

Publisher: [Geneva] : Pour les heritiers d'Eustache Vignon

Collection: jcbindigenous; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: French; tup

Place of publication suggested by Alden

Edition statement appears before statement of responsibility on title page

Actuality the sixth French edition. The fifth French edition was printed in Geneva, 1599.Cf. Moraes

This edition is a reissue of the fifth French edition with an altered imprint date

First printed La Rochelle, 1578

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 pais nommez Tououpinambaoults, & Toupinenkins en langage sauuage & François", p. 389-422, 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. 173, 188, 307, and 314

Signatures: a-d (a1 verso blank) e ²a-²e (b4, c4 missigned B4, C4) f-z 2A-2H (2G8 blank)

Errata: p. [18], 3rd count

Includes index

Woodcut printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials

Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.)

Alden, J.E. European Americana

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: title page soiled with some text obliterated

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary pigskin; rebacked

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Georg Ulrici Dantiscani: ms. autograph on title page