Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique
Subtitle: Contenant la nauigation, & choses remarquables, veuës sur mer par l'aucteur: le comportement de Villegagnon, en ce païs là. Les meurs [sic] & 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 commencement du liure. Non encores mis en lumiere, pour les causes contenues en la preface
By: Le tout recueilli sur les lieux par Iean de Lery natif de Margelle, terre de Sainct Sene au Duché de Bourgongne
Contributors: H. F. V. W.
Publisher: Pour Antoine Chuppin
Published: 1578
Place of publication: La Rochelle, France]
Language: frm
Number of pages: 424
Subjects: Social life and customs; Grammar; Description and travel; Tupi language; Indians of South America; Glossaries, vocabularies; Tupi Indians; Natural history; History
Other titles: Histoire d'vn voyage fait en la terre dv Bresil, autrement dite Amerique.; Histoire de l'Ameriqve.
Work titles: Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Brésil
Notes: Place of publication suggested by Alden.

The author gives an account of Nicolas Durand de Villegagnon's colony in Brazil and the Tupi Indians who inhabited the country.

There are certain variations in the text on p. [7], 1st count.

"Colloque de l'entree ou arriuee en la terre du Bresil entre les gens du pays nommez Tououpinambaoults, & Toupinenquin en langage sauuage & François", p. 340-377, 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: ã⁸ (ã1 verso blank) ẽ⁸ ĩ⁸ (ĩ8 verso blank) A-2C⁸ 2D⁴ 2E⁸ (2E7 verso and 2E8 blank)

Errata statement: p. [13], 3rd count.

Includes index.

Woodcut head and tail pieces; initials.

Includes woodcut full page illustrations of the Tupi Indians.

Arents, G. Tobacco, 26n.

Church, E.D. Discovery, 124n.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.) I: p. 468-469.

Alden, J.E.  European Americana, 578/48.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I:271.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 has line 3-4 on p. [7], 1st count, reading: "actions. Ce vingtcinquieme de Decembre, mil / cinq cens soixante & dixsept"

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 imperfect: wanting blank leaf, p. [15-16], 3rd count.

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 has line 3-4 on p. [7], 1st count, reading: "actions. Ce vingtieme de Decembre, mil cinq / cens soixante & dixsept"

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 imperfect: p. [5-8], 3rd count, misbound before p. [1-4], 3rd count; p. [9-12], 3rd count, misbound after p. [13-16], 3rd count.

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 bound in contemporary full vellum.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 2: H.F.V.W.: black stamped crest of front and back covers of vellum binding.