Des Herrn Johann von Lery Reise in Brasilien
By: Nach der von dem Herrn Verfasser selbst veranstalteten verbesserten und vermehrten lateinischen Ausgabe übersetzt. Mit Anmerkungen und Erläuterungen
Contributors: Görlitz (Dresden, Germany)
Publisher: im Verlag der Platvoetischen Buchhandlung
Published: 1794
Place of publication: Münster
Language: ger
Number of pages: 415
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: Reise in Brasilien.
Work titles: Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Brésil
Notes: Translation of the author's: Historia navigationis in Brasiliam quae et America dicitur, first printed Geneva, 1586, itself a translation of: Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, 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.

"Gespräch, gleich beym Eintritte in Brasilien, zwischen den Eingebornen Tuupinambolsiern, Tuupinenkin, und Europäern. Brasilianisch und Deutsch", p. 331-360, contains numerous phrases in the Tupi language translated into the German language, a discussion of grammar with examples, and a comparative glossary of words in Tupi and German. 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. 203, 276, and 280-281.

Signatures: )(⁴ ()(1 verso blank) A-2B⁸ 2C-2D⁴ (2C2, 2D4 versos blank)

Engraved printer's vignette on title page.

Sabin 40156.

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

Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800, III:3666.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Görlitz: bookstamp on title page.