(BRAZIL.) Jean de Léry. Historia navigationis in Brasiliam.
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(BRAZIL.) Jean de Léry. Historia navigationis in Brasiliam. 7 full-page engravings. [61], [3 blank pages], 341, [17] pages. 8vo, contemporary vellum, moderate wear and soiling; lacking the scarce folding plate, crudely rejointed. Geneva: Eustathium Vignon, 1586 First Latin edition, containing material suppressed from the 1578 French first edition. An important account by a Huguenot Protestant missionary. Includes the first attempt to commit Brazilian melodies to print (pages 128, 214-220), which first appeared in the 1585 edition. Borba de Moraes page I:470; European Americana 586/47; Sabin 40153.
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(BRAZIL.) Jean de Léry. Historia navigationis in Brasiliam.
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