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Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique: Contenant la nauigation, & choses remarquables veues sur mer par l'autheur. Le comportement de Villegagnon en ce pays là. Les moeurs & façons 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 inconues par deça: dont on verra les sommaires des chapitres au co[m]mencement du liure
1594, Pour les heritiers d'Eustache Vignon
in French
- Reueue, corrigee, et bien augmentee en ceste troisieme edition, tant de figures, qu'autres choses notables sur le suiet de l'autheur.
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Place of publication suggested by Alden.
Edition statement appears before statement of responsibility on title page.
Actuality the fourth French edition. The third French edition was printed in Geneva, 1585. Cf. Moraes.
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 pays nommez Tououpinambaoults & Toupinenkins 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 blank)
Woodcut printer's ornaments on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.
Includes index.
Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.), I: p. 471.
Alden, J.E. European Americana, 594/31.
JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, 1:333.
Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Justinus de Nassau: ms. autograph on title page.
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