Histoires des Indes
By: de Iean Pierre Maffee bergamesque, de la Societé de Iesus. Où il est traicté de leur descouuerte, nauigation, & conqueste faicte tant par les portugais que castillans. Ensemble de leurs moeurs, ceremonies, loix, gouuernemens, & reduction à la foy catholique. Traduict par F.A.D.L.B. chanonie & archidiacre de Perigueux. Dedié à Monseigneur le Dauphin
Contributors: La Borie, François de
Publisher: Par Iean Pillehotte, à l'enseigne du nom de Iesus.
Published: 1604
Place of publication: A Lyon
Language: fre
Number of pages: 953
Subjects: Indians of South America; History
Work titles: Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI
Notes: Translation, by François Arnault de la Borie, of the author's: Historiarum indicarum libri XVI, first printed Florence, 1588.

Dedication, p. [3-4] and p. [1], 1st and 2nd counts, signed and dated: François Arnault de la Boirie, de Perigueux le 12. Ian. 1602.

This is a reprinted issue, with a cancelled title page, of that printed in Paris by Jean Pillehotte in 1603.

Includes references to Brazil and the native population in book 2, p. 87-140.

Signatures: A¹⁰ (A1 verso blank) B-3Q⁸ 3R⁴

Includes index.

Engraved Jesuit trigram on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Streit, R. Bibliotheca missionum, V:50.

Bibliotḧque de la Compagnie de ̌Jsus, V: col. 299.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bibliographia brasiliana (1983 edition), II: p. 509.

European Americana 604/43.

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

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