Historia navigationis in Brasiliam quae et America dicitur : qva describitvr avtoris nauigatio, quaeq́ue 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, reliquáque singularia & nobis penitùs incognita / a Ioanne Lerio Bvrgvndo Gallicé scripta ; nunc verò primum Latinitate donata, & variis figuris illustrata.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

French

Latin

Subjects (All):

Indians of South America--Brazil.

Indians of South America.

Tupi language--Texts.

Tupi language.

Brazil--Description and travel.

Brazil.

Brazil--History--French colony, 1555-1567.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([32], 341, [17] p., [1] folded leaf of plates ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Historia navigationis in Brasiliam quae et America dicitur

Place of Publication:

[Genevae] : Excvdebat Evstathivs Vignon, 1586.

Notes:

Preface includes a letter written by Villegagnon to Jean Calvin. Ch. 20 is a dialogue in Tupi and Latin. The Latin version is, according to Sabin, more valuable than the original, as it contains passages that were suppressed in the French.

Includes index.

Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.

Sabin no. 40153.

Cited in:

RLIN, CTRG96-B1493

OCLC:

85791195