Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, dite Amerique
Subtitle: Contenant la nauigation, & choses remarquables, veuës sur mer par l'autheur. Le comportement de Villegagnon en ce païs la. Les moeurs & façons de viure estranges des sauuages bresiliens: auec vn colloque de leur langage. Ensemble la description de plusieurs animaux, poissons, diformes, arbres, herbes, fruicts, racines, & autres choses singulieres, & du tout incognues par deçà: dont on verra les sommaires des chapitres au commencement du liure. Auec les figures, reueue, corrigee & bien augmentee par l'autheur
By: Le tout recueilli sur les lieux, par Iean Delery, natif de la Margelle, terre de Sainct Sene au Duché de Bourgongne
Contributors: Ulrich, Georg
Edition: Quatrieme edition.
Publisher: Pour les heritiers d'Eustache Vignon
Published: 1600
Place of publication: [Geneva]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 478
Subjects: Social life and customs; Grammar; Description and travel; Tupi language; Indians of South America; Indian linguistics; Glossaries, vocabularies; Tupi Indians; Music; Natural history; History
Other titles: Histoire d'vn voyage fait en la terre dv Bresil, dite Amerique.; Histoire de l'Ameriqve.
Work titles: Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil
Notes: Place of publication suggested by Alden.

Edition statement appears before statement of responsibility on title page.

Actuality the sixth French edition. The fifth French edition was printed in Geneva, 1599.Cf. Moraes.

This edition is a reissue of the fifth French edition with an altered imprint date.

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 pais nommez Tououpinambaoults, & Toupinenkins en langage sauuage & François", p. 389-422, 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.

Includes musical notations with words in the Tupi language on p. 173, 188, 307, and 314.

Signatures: a-d⁸ (a1 verso blank) e⁴ ²a-²e⁸ (b4, c4 missigned B4, C4) f-z⁸ 2A-2H⁸ (2G8 blank)

Errata: p. [18], 3rd count.

Includes index.

Woodcut printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.), I: p. 472.

Alden, J.E.  European Americana, 600/59.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, II:7.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: title page soiled with some text obliterated.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary pigskin; rebacked.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Georg Ulrici Dantiscani: ms. autograph on title page.