Historia navigationis in Brasiliam quae et America dicitvr :
qua describitvr avthoris navigatio, quaeque in mari vidit memoriae prodenda, Villagagnonis in America gesta : Brasiliensium victus & mores, à nostris admodum alieni, cum eorum linguae dialogo : animalia etiam, arbores atque herbae, reliquaque singularia & nobis penitus incognita /
a Joanne Lerio Bvrgvndo Gallicè scripta ; nunc verò primùm Latinitate donata, & varijs figuris illustrata.

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Main Author

Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611.

Language(s)

Latin

Published

Genevae : Apud haeredes Eustathij Vignon, M D XCIIII [1594]

Edition

Secvnda editio.

Subjects

Léry, Jean de, > Léry, Jean de, / 1534-1611 > Léry, Jean de, / 1534-1611 / Travel > Léry, Jean de, / 1534-1611 / Travel / Brazil.
Villegaignon, Nicolas Durand de, > Villegaignon, Nicolas Durand de, / 1510-1571?
Natural history > Natural history / Brazil > Natural history / Brazil / Pre-Linnean works.
Tupinamba Indians > Tupinamba Indians / Social life and customs.
Indians of South America > Indians of South America / Brazil > Indians of South America / Brazil / Social life and customs.
Tupi language.
Indians of South America > Indians of South America / Brazil.
Brazil > Brazil / History > Brazil / History / French colony, 1555-1567.
Brazil > Brazil / Description and travel > Brazil / Description and travel / Early works to 1800.
Woodcuts > Woodcuts / Switzerland > Woodcuts / Switzerland / 16th century.

Note

Includes index.
Signatures: *⁸ a-z⁸ A-C⁸. Page nos. 213-230 repeated.
Printer's device on t.p. Woodcut ill. Head- and tail-pieces. Initials.
Original ed. in French appeared in 1578. Vignon's Latin ed. first appeared in 1586. See Sabin.

Physical Description

[58], 340 [i.e. 358], [16] p. (the last blank), [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., music ; 18 cm. (8vo)

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