Historia navigationis in Brasiliam qvae et America dicitvr by Jean de Léry (1534–1611)Publication Date: Secunda editio. Genevae: apud haeredes Eustathij Vignon, 1594.
[58], 340 [i.e. 358], [16] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates: illustrations (woodcuts); 18 cm (8vo). The account of travels in Brazil in 1556 by the French minister Jean de Léry. After eight months of dispute with leadership of the Catholic colony in the Bay of Rio de Janeiro, Léry and his fellow Huguenots took refuge with the Tupinambá Indians. Upon his return to Europe, Léry published an account of his travels describing Brazil, its indigenous peoples, plants, and animals. The Latin version of the work contains passages that were suppressed in the original French; this edition also contains the earliest transcription of Tupi melodies in European music notation. Gift of The Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries, 2024.