| Title | Historia nauigationis in Brasiliam, quae et America dicitur. : Qua describitur autoris nauigatio, quaeq́ue in mari vidit memoriae prodenda: Villagagnonis in America gesta: Brasiliensium victus & mores, à nostris admodum alieni, cum eorum linguae dialogo: animalia etiam, arbores, atque herbae, reliquáque singularia & nobis penitùs incognita. | Translate |
| Annotation | Printer's device on title page. Place of publication from Adams. Another edition of the same year (see Adams, L537 and GLN-3210) has place of publication "Genuae" in imprint. Also issued as part of: Historia Indiae Occidentalis tomis duobus comprehensa / Girolamo Benzoni. [Geneva] : Eustathius Vignon, [1586]. Translation of: Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil. The Latin version is, according to Sabin, more valuable than the original, as it contains passages that were suppressed in the French. Preface includes a letter written by Villegagnon to Jean Calvin. Chapter 20 is a dialogue in Tupi and Latin. Contains 8 woodcut illustrations, including a folded plate inserted after page 178, representing battle of Tououpinambaults with the Margaiats. Contains a prefatory poem by I. I. B. [Joannes Jacomotus Barrensis], and a prefatory poem in Greek by Is. Cas [Isaac Casaubon]. Author gives musical notes to show the intonation of the Caraibs, etc. Signatures: *-****⁸ A-Y⁸ Z⁴ a⁸ (****8 blank). With decorated initials, head-pieces, tail-pieces and printed marginal notes. Errors in paging: pages 180-181 incorrectly numbered 182-183; pages 206-223 repeated. Includes index. Errata on leaf Z4 verso. Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, GLN 15-16, European Americana, Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 40153 3190 586/47 L 536 1:308 | Translate |
