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Histoire d'vn voyage faict en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique. Contenant... les moeurs & façons de viure estranges des sauuages ameriquains: auec vn colloque de leur language.
Geneva: Antoine Chuppin, 1580
Physical Description: [44], 382, [14] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Call number: E580/ L621h
Accession number: 03782
Notes:
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.
First printed in La Rochelle, 1578.
Edition statement appears before statement of responsibility on title page.
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.
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Languages: Tupi
Genre: Grammar / Specimen / Vocabulary
Region: Brazil
