LÉRY, Jean de (1534-1611). Historia navigationis in Brasiliam quae et America dicitur . Geneva: heirs of Eustache Vignon, 1594. 8 o (164 x 101 mm). 7 full-page woodcuts, one folding woodcut plate. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Printed music on s4r-v. (Some light foxing, minuscule tear to folding woodcut at guard.) 18th-century German vellum over pasteboard, manuscript title on spine, edges stained blue (lacking pair of fore-edge ties). Provenance : (C.E. Rappaport, Rome, bookseller's label). Second Latin edition of this classic account of Villegagnon's colony in the bay of Rio de Janeiro. Léry, a Huguenot from Burgundy, joined the colony in 1556 at Villegagnon's invitation in order to establish a Protestant settlement there, but the project fell through and Villegagnon apparently turned against the Protestant group, who escaped "after great tribulations", and returned to France. Léry was later ordained pastor in Geneva. Written in 1563, in order to refute Thevet, whose account Léry considered untrue (although he appears to have borrowed from it at length), Léry's narrative was not published until 1578, at La Rochelle. Besides the valuable description of Villegagnon's colony, the book is full of "curious observations about fish, tropical temperatures, atmospheric phenomena of the Equator... Brazilian flora, fauna and the Indians" (Borba de Moraes). Of great linguistic interest is the dialogue between a Frenchman and a Tupi. This Latin translation, first published by Vignon in 1586, contains passages suppressed in the French editions (the text published in the de Bry collection is a paraphrase, omitting all mention of the French colony). Five indigenous Brazilian songs were first transcribed in the 1585 edition; two of these earliest printed transcriptions of Brazilian music are included here. The striking woodcuts were first used in the second edition of 1580. The large folding cut depicts a battle between two native tribes. Alden and Landis 594/32; Borba de Moraes I:471; JCB (3) I:333; Sabin 40154.
LÉRY, Jean de (1534-1611). Historia navigationis in Brasiliam quae et America dicitur . Geneva: heirs of Eustache Vignon, 1594. 8 o (164 x 101 mm). 7 full-page woodcuts, one folding woodcut plate. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Printed music on s4r-v. (Some light foxing, minuscule tear to folding woodcut at guard.) 18th-century German vellum over pasteboard, manuscript title on spine, edges stained blue (lacking pair of fore-edge ties). Provenance : (C.E. Rappaport, Rome, bookseller's label). Second Latin edition of this classic account of Villegagnon's colony in the bay of Rio de Janeiro. Léry, a Huguenot from Burgundy, joined the colony in 1556 at Villegagnon's invitation in order to establish a Protestant settlement there, but the project fell through and Villegagnon apparently turned against the Protestant group, who escaped "after great tribulations", and returned to France. Léry was later ordained pastor in Geneva. Written in 1563, in order to refute Thevet, whose account Léry considered untrue (although he appears to have borrowed from it at length), Léry's narrative was not published until 1578, at La Rochelle. Besides the valuable description of Villegagnon's colony, the book is full of "curious observations about fish, tropical temperatures, atmospheric phenomena of the Equator... Brazilian flora, fauna and the Indians" (Borba de Moraes). Of great linguistic interest is the dialogue between a Frenchman and a Tupi. This Latin translation, first published by Vignon in 1586, contains passages suppressed in the French editions (the text published in the de Bry collection is a paraphrase, omitting all mention of the French colony). Five indigenous Brazilian songs were first transcribed in the 1585 edition; two of these earliest printed transcriptions of Brazilian music are included here. The striking woodcuts were first used in the second edition of 1580. The large folding cut depicts a battle between two native tribes. Alden and Landis 594/32; Borba de Moraes I:471; JCB (3) I:333; Sabin 40154.
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