Hans STADEN
Véritable histoire et description d'un pays habité par des hommes sauvages nus, féroces et anthropophages, situé dans le nouveau monde nommé Amérique[True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil]
Arthus Bertrand|Paris 1838|14.2 x 23.5 cm|Relié
New edition of the French translation (cf. Sabin, 90059).
Contemporary red half shagreen binding, flat spine decorated with gilt and blind fillets, gilt floral rolls at head and foot, marbled paper boards, hand-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original pink printed cover (blank) preserved, 20th-century binding.
Some foxing, a tiny nick at the foot of the spine.
Third volume of the Voyages, relations et mémoires originaux pour servir à l'histoire de la découverte de l'Amérique, edited by Henri Ternaux-Compans.
This is the first French version of Hans Staden's account, a native of Homburg in Hesse, originally published in German in Marburg in 1557 (one smal
€350