comportement de Villegagnon en ce pays-la. Les mœurs & façons de viure estranges des Sauuages Ameriquains: auec vn colloque
de leur langage. Ensemble la description de plusieurs Animaux, Arbres, Herbes, & autres choses singulieres, & du tout incōnues
pardeçà: dont on verra les sommaires des chapitres au commencement du liure. Reveve, corrigee, et bien augmentee en ceste
seconde Edition, tant de figures, qu’autres choses notables sur le suiet de l’auteur. Le tout recueilli sur les lieux par Iean de Lery, natif de la Margelle, terre de sainct Sene, au Duché de Bourgongne . . . A
Geneve: pour
Antoine Chuppin,
m. d. lxxx
. [1580.]
F2511 .L605
Sm. 8vo. 219 leaves, full page and folded plates; dedication to the Comte de Colligny repeated from the first edition, complimentary
sonnets at the beginning.
Sabin 40149.
Rodrigues 1393.
John Carter Brown 335.
This edition not in Boucher de la Richarderie.
Haag VI, p. 566.
This edition not in Field.
Jefferson bought a copy from
Froullé of Paris on April 17, 1789, price
12.1. The price entered by him in his undated manuscript catalogue is
4.19.
Jean de Léry, 1534-1611, French Protestant minister, went to Brazil in 1557 under Villegagnon with the Huguenot expedition ordered by
Coligny to found a colony at Rio de Janeiro. The enterprize was a failure, and on his return to France after almost eighteen
years, Léry wrote this account which contains much interesting matter concerning the aborigines. The first edition was published
in 1578, and was frequently reprinted. A translation into Latin was used by De Bry in the thirteenth part of the
Grands Voyages
.
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142
Naufragios y comentarios de Alvar Nuñez en dos jornadas à las Indias
p 4
to.
Valladol.
1555.
1815 Catalogue, page 125, no. 204, as above.
NUÑEZ CABEZA DE VACA,
Alvar.
La relacion y comentariõs del gouernador Aluar nuñez cabeca de vaca, de lo acaescido en las dos jornadas que hizo a las Indias. Con Priuilegio. Esta tassado por las se(
~i)ores del consejo en Och(
~e)ta y cinco m(
~j)s.
[Colophon: Impresso en
Valladolid, por
Francisco fernandez de Cordoua. Año de
mil y quiniennientos y cinquenta y cinco años.] [1555.]
E125 .N9 N8
4to. 2 parts in 1, 146 leaves (numbered clxiiii, the first 2 leaves of the second part unnumbered), title printed in red and
black below a large woodcut of the arms of Spain with the double-headed eagle, text in gothic letter, woodcut initials, woodcut
on the recto of the last leaf of the
relacion, verso blank, title of the
Commentarios on the recto of the next leaf:
Commentarios de Alvar Nvnez Cabeça de vaca, adelantado y gouernador de la prouincia del Rio de la Plata, with woodcut arms, colophon on the verso of the last page; the running titles are
Naufragios de and
Comentarios de Aluar nuñez cabeça de vaca.
Sabin 9768.
Palau V, 329.
Medina 172.
Antonio I, 61.
Salvá II, 3369.
Wagner 1a.
John Carter Brown 197.
See Field 230 and Harrisse 381-384.
This is the
second edition of the first part, and the
first edition of the
Commentariõs. The first edition of
La relacion was printed in Zamora in 1542, and is known in one or two copies only. A translation into English is in
Purchas, his Pilgrim
, and into Italian in the third volume of Ramusio’s
Navigationi et Viaggi
, for which see the Index.
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, Spanish explorer of the 16th century, has given in this
Relacion a record of the first journey made by Europeans through North America in the expedition which set out from Spain in 1527
for the conquest of Florida. Nuñez was one of the survivors seized by the Indians on the Mississippi coast and kept in slavery
for four years. After his return to Spain he was made governor of the province of Rio de la Plata.
For accounts of this book and the author, see Harrisse, Wagner, Field, and the John Carter Brown Catalogue.
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