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Lery, Jean, Histoire d’un voyage fait en la terre de Bresil, autrement dite Amerique. Contenant la navigacion, & choses remarquables veues sur mer par l’aucteur. Le comportement de Villegagnon, en ce pais la. Les meurs & façons de vivre estranges des Sauvages Ameriquains: avec un colloque de leur langage. Ensemble la description de plusieurs Animaux, Arbres, Herbes, & autres choses singulieres, & du tout inconnues par deça, dont on verra les sommaires des chapitres au commencement du livre, 1578. [La Rochelle].
Lery, Jean, Histoire d’un voyage fait en la terre de Bresil, autrement dite Amerique. Contenant la navigacion, & choses remarquables veues sur mer par l’aucteur. Le comportement de Villegagnon, en ce pais la. Les meurs & façons de vivre estranges des Sauvages Ameriquains: avec un colloque de leur langage. Ensemble la description de plusieurs Animaux, Arbres, Herbes, & autres choses singulieres, & du tout inconnues par deça, dont on verra les sommaires des chapitres au commencement du livre, 1578. [La Rochelle].
Lery, Jean, Histoire d’un voyage fait en la terre de Bresil, autrement dite Amerique. Contenant la navigacion, & choses remarquables veues sur mer par l’aucteur. Le comportement de Villegagnon, en ce pais la. Les meurs & façons de vivre estranges des Sauvages Ameriquains: avec un colloque de leur langage. Ensemble la description de plusieurs Animaux, Arbres, Herbes, & autres choses singulieres, & du tout inconnues par deça, dont on verra les sommaires des chapitres au commencement du livre, 1578. [La Rochelle].

Lery, Jean

Histoire d’un voyage fait en la terre de Bresil, autrement dite Amerique. Contenant la navigacion, & choses remarquables veues sur mer par l’aucteur. Le comportement de Villegagnon, en ce pais la. Les meurs & façons de vivre estranges des Sauvages Ameriqu, 1578. [La Rochelle].
The Best Early Account of Indigenous Americans.

First edition. A “chef-d’oeuvre de la littérature ethnographique” (Claude Lévi-Strauss). “Of all the many travel narratives of the sixteenth century Jean de Lery’s Histoire d’un Voyage fait en la terre de Bresil contains the most sensitive and detailed account we have of a Native American people before prolonged contact with Europeans had radically changed their culture” (Pagden).
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Small 8vo. [xlviii], 424, 12, 1pp. Six full page woodcuts in the text. Later antique vellum, probably 18th century, spine lettered in ink. Title page probably washed and a little soiled, some scattered foxing and spotting, overall in very good condition.
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