Second liure des serees
By: de Guillaume Bouchet, sieur de Brocourt. Reueu & corrigé de nouueau par l'autheur
Publisher: Chez Ieremie Perier, tenant sa boutique sur la petite montee du Palais
Published: 1608
Place of publication: Se vendent a Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Social life and customs; Indians of North America; Indians of Mexico; Zoology; Clothing; Indians of South America; History
Other titles: Second livre des serees.
Notes: Parts 1 and 3 were also printed in Paris by Jeremie Perier in the same year.

Essays and stories related at the soirées of Guillaume Bouchet.

Includes an account of an American beast resembling a she-monkey which can survive on odors and wind (leaf 119 verso-120 recto), an opinion on the straight posture of American natives because of not being swaddled (book 20), reports of Brazilian natives who are believed to be covered in fur because of their wearing of feathers (book 20), a mention of Peru (book 20), a mention on the sexual customs of natives in Canada (leaf 212 recto), an account of natives in Mexico nursing their young (leaf 265 verso), among other references.

Signatures: A-2A¹² (O3 missigned N3) (A1 verso, 2A12 blank)

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

Brunet I:1165.

Cioranescu, A. 17 s., 4441.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in later full vellum over boards.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Bloomingdale Fund.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Rob: Gordone (?): ms. autograph on title page.