Historia nauigationis in Brasiliam, quae et America dicitur
Subtitle: Qua describitur autoris nauigatio, quaéque 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
By: A Ioanne Lerio Burgundo Gallicè scripta. Nunc verò primum Latinitate donata, & variis figuris illustrata
Contributors: Chauveton, Urbain, d. ca. 1616; Augustus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843; Brunsonius, P.; Lyell, Joseph, fl. 1684
Publisher: Excudebat Eustathius Vignon
Published: 1586
Place of publication: Geneva]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 341
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: Historia navigationis in Brasiliam, quae et America dicitur.
Work titles: Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil
Notes: Translation, by Urbain Chauveton, of: Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique, first printed La Rochelle, 1578, but containing material suppressed there.

Place of publication suggested by Alden.

Roman numeral date on title page made with reverse C's.

Also issued as part of: Historia Indiae Occidentalis tomis duobus comprehensa / by Girolamo Benzoni, [Geneva]: Eustathius Vignon, 1586.

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

"Colloquium in ipso aditu Brasiliensis orae inter indigenasTououpinambaultios Tououpinenkin Brasilicè ac Latinè conscriptum", p. 271-297, contains numerous phrases in the Tupi language translated into the Latin language, a discussion of grammar with examples, and a comparative glossary of words in Tupi and Latin. 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. 219-220.

Signatures: *⁻****⁸ (****7 verso, ****8 blank) ²A-Y⁸ Z⁴ ²a⁸ (²a4 missigned A4)

Errata: p. [1], 4th count.

Includes index.

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

Arents, G. Tobacco, 29.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.), I: p. 470-471.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 586/47.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I:308.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary blind tooled pigskin.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Frederick Augustus, Duke of Sussex: armorial bookplate on front pastedown; P. Brunsonij: ms. autograph on title page; Jo. Lyell: ms. autograph on title page.