Historia navigationis in Brasiliam quae et America dicitur qva describitvr avtoris nauigatio, quaeq́ue in mari vidit memoriae prodenda : Villagagnonis in America gesta : Brasiliensium victus & mores, à nostris admodum alieni, cum eorum linguae dialogo : animalia etiam, arbores, atque herbae, reliquáque singularia & nobis penitùs incognita
a Ioanne Lerio Bvrgvndo Gallicé scripta ; nunc verò primum Latinitate donata, & variis figuris illustrata
Included Title
Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
Format
Books
Language
Latin
Publication
[Genevae] : Excvdebat Evstathivs Vignon, 1586
Physical Details
[32], 341, [17] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm
Preface includes a letter written by Villegagnon to Jean Calvin. Ch. 20 is a dialogue in Tupi and Latin. The Latin version is, according to Sabin, more valuable than the original, as it contains passages that were suppressed in the French.