Americae tertia pars
Subtitle: memorabile provinciæ Brasiliæ historiam contines
By: germanico primum sermone scriptam à Ioãne Stadio ... ; nunc autem latinitate donatam à Teucrio Annæo Priuato Colchanthe ... ; addita est narratio profectionis Ioannis Lerij in eamdem provinciam, quã ille initio gallicè conscripsit, postea verò latinam fecit ; his accesit descriptio morum & ferocitatis incolarum illius regionis, atque colloquium ipsorum idiomate conscriptum ; omnia recens evulgata & eiconibus in æs incisis ac ad vivum expressis illustrata ad normam exemplaris prædictorum autorum, studio & dilgentia Theodori de Bry ... Francofurtensis anno MDXCII
Contributors: Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611; Barré, Nicolas; Lonicerus, Johann Adam, b. 1557; Clusius, Carolus, 1526-1609
Publisher: Apud Ioannem Wechelvm, impensis Theodori de Bry; Venales reperiutur in officina Sigismundi Feirabendii
Published: 1592
Place of publication: Impressvm Francofvrti ad Moenvm
Language: lat
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Tupi language; Indians of South America; Description and travel; Tupinamba Indians
Other titles: Navigatio in Brasiliam Americae.; Exemplar duarum litterarum.
Work titles: America
Notes: First edition, first issue.

Signatures: a-b, A-2Q (2Q4 a blank)

Imprint information supplied from colophon, sig. 2Q3v, except for distributor which appears on the engraved t.p.

A second engraved t.p. introduces the 2nd section: Navigatio in Brasiliam Americae ... a Ioanne Lerio Bvrgvndo ... illustrata per Theodorum de Bry Leo. Venales reperiutur in officina Theodori de Bry.

Third section has printed t.p.: Exemplar dvarvm litterarvm ... Latio donatæ a C.C.A.  Francofvurti : Typis Ioannis Welcheli, MDXCII.

Contains an account of two voyages made to Brazil in 1546-1548 and 1549-1555 by Hans Staden, translated into Latin by Adam Lonitzer; an account of a voyage to Brazil in 1556-1558, by Jean de Léry; and two letters of Nicolas Barré, dated 1 February and 25 May, 1552, which relate to Brazil.

Includes index.

Church, E. D.  Discovery, 148

Sabin, III, p. 33-35

Brunet, I, columns 1323-1325

Grässe, VII, p. 126

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I-2, p. 390-391

Library's copy lacks map of South America.  Appropriate ill. appears on p. 52, not pasted on p. 56.  Ill. of Adam and Eve appears on p. 144, signed Theodore de Bry fe.