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Georgi Marcgravi de Liebstad, misnici Germani, Historiae rerum naturalium Brasiliae, libri octo... Cum appendice de Tapuyis, et Chilensibus.
Amsterdam & Leyden: François Haack and Louis Elsevier, [1648]
Physical Description: [8], 293, [7] p. : ill. ; 41 cm (fol.)
Call number: F648/ P678h/ 2-Size
Accession number: 01871
Notes: Includes “Da lingua brasiliensium, è grammatica P. Josephi de Ancieta, S.I.”, containing brief remarks on Tupi phonetics and parts of speech (p. 274- 275); "Dictionariolum nominum & verborum linguae Brasiliensibus maxime communis" and “Dictionariolum verborum maxime communium”, listing approximately 300 Tupi terms with Latin equivalents (p. 276-277); and "De chilensium lingua, & vocabularium dictionum chilensium”, listing over 300 Mapuche terms, including cardinal numbers, with Latin equivalents (p. 288-290). “Index omnium plantarum et animantium quae in his octo Libris describuntur & delineantur” (p. [1-7], final count) includes references to native names for flora and fauna throughout the entire volume. Issued as part of Willem Piso, Historia naturalis Brasiliae... in qua non tantum plantae et animalia, sed et indigenarium morbi, ingenia et mores describuntur, Leyden and Amsterdam,1648.
Languages: Mapuche / Tupi
Genre: Grammar / Vocabulary
Region: Brazil / Spanish America
