Histoire d'un voyage faict en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique
Subtitle: Contenant la nauigation, & choses remarquables, veuës sur mer par l'aucteur. Le comportement de Villegagnon en ce pays la. Les moeurs & fac̦ons de viure estranges des sauuages ameriquains: auec vn colloque de leur langage. Ensemble la description de plusieurs animaux, arbres, herbes, & autres choses singulieres, & du tout inco[n]nues pardec̦à: dont on verra les sommaires des chapitres au commencement du liure
By: Le tout recueilli sur les lieux par Iean de Lery, natif de la Margelle, terre de Sainct Sene, au Duché de Bourgongne
Edition: Reueue, corrigee, et bien augmentee en ceste seconde edition, tant de figures, qu'autres choses notables sur le suiet de l'auteur.
Publisher: Pour Antoine Chuppin
Published: 1580
Place of publication: A Geneve
Language: fre
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: Social life and customs; Grammar; Description and travel; Tupi language; Indians of South America; Indian linguistics; Glossaries, vocabularies; Tupi Indians; Natural history; History
Other titles: Histoire d'vn voyage faict en la terre dv Bresil, autrement dite Amerique.; Histoire de l'Ameriqve.
Work titles: Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Brésil
Notes: First printed in La Rochelle, 1578.

Edition statement appears before statement of responsibility on title page.

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

"Colloque de l'entree ou arriuee en la terre du Bresil entre les gens du pays nommez Tououpinambaoults, & Toupinnkin en langage sauuage & François", p. 306-338, contains numerous phrases in the Tupi language translated into the French language, a discussion of grammar with examples, and a comparative glossary of words in Tupi and French. There are also numerous words and phrases in the Tupi language scattered throughout the text.

Signatures: A-2D⁸ (C6 verso blank) 2E⁴ (2E4 verso blank)

Woodcut head and tail pieces; initials.

Includes woodcut full page illustrations of the Tupi Indians.

Errata statement: p. [13], 3rd count.

Includes index.

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

Alden, J.E.  European Americana, 580/41.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, I:279.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: wanting p. [7-14], 3rd count, of the index; available in facsimile and housed in the JCB bibliographical file.