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Histoire d'vn voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique. Contenant... les moeurs & façons de viure estranges des sauuages ameriquains: auec vn colloque de leur langage... Reueue, corrigee, et bien augmentee en ceste troisieme edition.
[Geneva]: Heirs of Eustache Vignon, 1594
Physical Description: [44], 382, [14] p., [1] folded leaf of plates (the last 2 p. blank) : ill. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Call number: E594/ L621hf
Accession number: 02599
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 & Toupinenkins 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.
Place of publication suggested by Alden.
Edition statement appears before statement of responsibility on title page.
Actuality the fourth French edition. The third French edition was printed in Geneva, 1585. Cf. Moraes.
First printed La Rochelle, 1578.
Includes index.
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Languages: Tupi
Genre: Grammar / Specimen / Vocabulary
Region: Brazil
