Jean de LERY
Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Brésil, dite AmériqueHistory of a voyage to the land of Brazil, otherwise called America
Pour Jean Vignon|à Genève [Geneva] 1611|11 x 17.50 cm|relié
”And what can be said on the way Voyage is constructed? - It could not be more modern. Like the monograph of a contemporary ethnographer [...] I already said it, I repeat it: it is really the first founding model of an ethnologist's monograph” (Claude Lévi-Strauss)
Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Brésil, dite Amérique [History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, otherwise called America]
Pour Jean Vignon, à Genève 1611, 8° (11x17,5cm), (80 p.) 489 pp. (15 p.), contemporary brown calf.
Illustrated with 8 full-page engravings with the folding plate titled “Pourtrait du combat entre les sauvages T
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