Do Amazonas a Paris
Subtitle: as lendas indígenas de Vicente do Rego Monteiro
Contributors: Schwartz, Jorge, 1944-; Campos, Regina Salgado; Duchartre, Pierre-Louis, 1894-
Publisher: Edusp : Imprensa Oficial do Estado de São Paulo
Published: 2005
Place of publication: São Paulo
Language: por; fre
ISBN-13: 9788531409219; 9788570604095
Subjects: Indians of South America; Folklore
Other titles: Légendes, croyances et talismans des Indiens de l'Amazone.; Lendas, crenças e talismãs dos Índios do Amazonas.; Quelques visages de Paris.; Algumas vistas de Paris.
Notes: Title from cardboard container.

"Deluxe edition ... that includes facsimile reproductions with [separately bound] Portuguese translations of the publications 'Légendes, croyances et talismans des Indiens de l'Amazone' and 'Quelques visages de Paris,' edited in France between 1923 and 1925 by Rego Monteiro ... [both of which are] considered bibliographic jewels of Latin American Modernism. The first book, illustrated in a mixture of Marajo culture motifs and Japanese orientalism aesthetically celebrates the Amazonian Indians' Tapuia and Tupi cosmogony legends and beliefs. The other ... book is a parody of the old European travelers who came to Brazil, in which Rego Monteiro sarcastically describes and reproduces the main tourist points of ... Paris"--Bookdealer's description.

Includes facsimile and Portuguese translation of: Duchartre, Pierre-Louis. Légendes, croyances et talismans des Indiens de l'Amazone / adaptations de P.L. Duchartre ; illustrations de V. de Rego Monteiro. Originally published: Paris : Editions Tolmer, 1923.

Includes facsimile and Portuguese translation of: Monteiro, Vicente do Rego. Quelques visages de Paris. Originally published: Paris : Imprimerie Juan Dura, 1925.

Each separately bound translation contains an introduction by Jorge Schwartz.

The books are housed in a printed, double-sided cardboard frame, held in a translucent plastic slipcase.

Limited ed. of 1000 copies.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in French with Portuguese translations by Regina Salgado Campos.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Legendes, croyances et talismans des Indiens de l'Amazone; title: v. 1, Suppl. Lendas, crenças e talismãs dos Índios do Amazonas; title: v. 2. Quelques visages de Paris / V. de Rego Monteiro; title: v. 2, Suppl. Algumas vistas de Paris.