Histoire d'un voyage faict en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique
Contenant la nauigation, & choses remarquables, veuës sur mer par l'auteur. 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, arbres, herbes, & autres choses singulieres, & du tout inconnues par-deçà: 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'auteur. 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, arbres, herbes, & autres choses singulieres, & du tout inconnues par-deçà: dont on verra les sommaires des chapitres au commencement du liure
1585, Pour Antoine Chuppin
in French
- Auec les figures, reueue, corrigee & bien augmentee de discours notables, en ceste troisieme edition.
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First printed La Rochelle, 1578.
Place of publication suggested by Alden.
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, & Toupinenkin en langage sauuage & François", p. 347-379, 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.
This is the first edition of the author's work to include music. Includes musical notations with words in the Tupi language on p. 159, 173, 279, 285, and 286.
Signatures: *⁸ [par.]-3[par.]⁸ 4[par.]² (4[par.]2 verso blank) A-2C⁸ 2D⁶ (2D6 verso blank) 2E⁸ (2E8 vero blank)
Includes index.
Woodcut head and tail pieces; initials.
Errata statement: p. [16], 3rd count.
JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, 1:304.
Morae, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.), I: p. 470.
Alden, J.E. European Americana, 585/43a.
JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I:304.
John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: closely trimmed at head of text block, affecting page numbers and running titles; closely trimmed at foredge, affecting marginal notes; wanting folded plate bound to face p. 414 or 415, and gathering 2E, the index; both are available in facsimile housed in JCB bibliographical file.
Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Jos. Hornby: ms. autograph on title page and contemporary notes scattered throughout the text.
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