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1066 - LÉRY, Jean de *History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Otherwise Known as America*. Containing the voyage and remarkable sights seen at sea by the author [...]. La Rochelle: A. Chuppin, 1578, 8vo: [47-1 bl.]-424-[13] pp. (small holes in title, title underlaid, leaf H5 missing, clear waterstains in the lower half throughout, small wormholes in the upper margin of the second half, occasionally touching the text). Contemporary paper, flat spine with ink title, blue edges (slightly soiled). Very rare first edition, with the La Rochelle imprint, of the renowned account by the Huguenot Léry (c. 1534–1613). It recounts the early French discoveries in America. Léry lived in the Calvinist colony established in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro. Illustrated with 5 full-page woodcuts in the text. Ref. Sabin 40149. - European Americana 578/48. - STC French 264. - Adams L-535. - Machiels I:207 (Geneva imprint).
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LÉRY, Jean de *History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Otherwise Known as America*. Containing the voyage and remarkable sights seen at sea by the author [...]. La Rochelle: A. Chuppin, 1578, 8vo: [47-1 bl.]-424-[13] pp. (small holes in title, title underlaid, leaf H5 missing, clear waterstains in the lower half throughout, small wormholes in the upper margin of the second half, occasionally touching the text). Contemporary paper, flat spine with ink title, blue edges (slightly soiled). Very rare first edition, with the La Rochelle imprint, of the renowned account by the Huguenot Léry (c. 1534–1613). It recounts the early French discoveries in America. Léry lived in the Calvinist colony established in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro. Illustrated with 5 full-page woodcuts in the text. Ref. Sabin 40149. - European Americana 578/48. - STC French 264. - Adams L-535. - Machiels I:207 (Geneva imprint).
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