First edition, first issue.

Signatures: a-b, A-2Q (2Q4 a blank)

Imprint information supplied from colophon, sig. 2Q3v, except for distributor which appears on the engraved t.p.

A second engraved t.p. introduces the 2nd section: Navigatio in Brasiliam Americae ... a Ioanne Lerio Bvrgvndo ... illustrata per Theodorum de Bry Leo. Venales reperiutur in officina Theodori de Bry.

Third section has printed t.p.: Exemplar dvarvm litterarvm ... Latio donatæ a C.C.A. Francofvurti : Typis Ioannis Welcheli, MDXCII.

Contains an account of two voyages made to Brazil in 1546-1548 and 1549-1555 by Hans Staden, translated into Latin by Adam Lonitzer; an account of a voyage to Brazil in 1556-1558, by Jean de Léry; and two letters of Nicolas Barré, dated 1 February and 25 May, 1552, which relate to Brazil.

Includes index.

Church, E. D. Discovery, 148

Sabin, III, p. 33-35

Brunet, I, columns 1323-1325

Grässe, VII, p. 126

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I-2, p. 390-391

Library's copy lacks map of South America. Appropriate ill. appears on p. 52, not pasted on p. 56. Ill. of Adam and Eve appears on p. 144, signed Theodore de Bry fe.