French cleric and explorer
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Jean de Léry
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Indiens de la Renaissance : histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Brésil, 1557 / Jean de Léry ; présentation par Anne-Marie Chartier.
Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611.Date: [1972]
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Brazil: Tupinamba Indian shamans (caraibes) wearing feather head-dresses surrounded by men dancing in a circle. Engraving by T. de Bry after J. de Léry, 1592.
Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611.Date: [1592]Reference: 34297i
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Histoire dún voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique. Contenant la navigation et choses remarquables veues sur mer / par l'autheur. Le comportement de Villegagnon en ce pays-là. Les moeurs et façons de viure estranges des sauuages ameriquains: auec vn colloque de leur langage. Ensemble la description de plusieurs animaux, arbres, herbes et autres choses singulières ... Reveve, corrigée et bien augmentee en ceste troisieme edition, tant de figures.
Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611.Date: 1594
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The manners, lawes, and customes of all nations / Collected out of the best vvriters by Ioannes Boemus Aubanus, a Dutch-man. With many other things of the same argument, gathered out of the Historie of Nicholas Damascen. The like also out of the History of America, or Brasill, written by Iohn Lerius. The faith, religion, and manners of the Aethiopians, and the deploration of the people of Lappia, compiled by Damianus à Goes. With a short discourse of the Aethiopians, taken out of Ioseph Scaliger his seuenth booke de Emendatione temporum. Written in Latin, and now newly translated into English. By Ed. Aston.
Boemus, Joannes, approximately 1485-1535.Date: 1611- Books
Historia Indiae Occidentalis, tomis duobus comprehensa. Prior, res ab Hispanis in india Occidentali hactenus gestas, acerbum illorum in eas gentes dominatum, insignésque in Gallos ad Floridam insulam sæuitiæ exemplum describit. Alter verò, Brasiliae (quæ et America dicitur) rerúmque in ea obseruatione dignarum a nobis penitus incognita descriptionem continet / Heronymo Benzone...& Ioanne Lerio...autoribus. Ex eorum autem idiomate in latinum sermonem Vrbani Calvetonis et G.M. studio conuersi...Addita est Totius Indiæ Occidentalis...descriptio.
Benzoni, Girolamo, 1519-1572?Date: 1586