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L'histoire du nouveau monde ou Description des Indes Occidentales, : contenant dix-huict liures,, par le Sieur Iean de Laet, d'Anuers; enrichi de nouuelles tables geographiques & figures des animaux, plantes & fruicts

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1 online resource ([28], 632, [12] pages, [28] leaves of plates (14 double)
Note
  • Translation of: Novus orbis seu Descriptionis Indiae Occidentalis, libri XVIII, printed in Leiden, 1633, which is an enlarged version of the author's Nieuwe wereldt ofte beschrijvinghe van West-Indien, first printed Leiden, 1625
  • Includes various specimens of indigenous language vocabularies: Book 2, chapters XII and XVI include a small list of vocabulary on p. 52 and 57, 2nd count, in the Huron language as spoken in Hochelaga, which was the indigenous name for Montréal; also includes music with Wyandot text on p. 58, 2nd count; Book 3, chapter XI gives a list of numbers and parts of the body in the "sankikan" language [cannot identify the language]; Book 5, chapter X gives a vocabulary of words and glyphs in Nahuatl on p. 153-154; Book V, chapter XIII gives a comparative Nahuatl vocabulary from the works of Gomara, Acosta, at Annales peintes on p. 162; Book 11, chapter XVIII gives "Du langue des Peruuiains & leur pöesie" on p. 405-406, which contains 2 specimens of Quechua copied from Garcilaso de la Vega, who himself cites and copies from Blas Valera; a 4 line love song with French translation, printed in 2 columns; and a 17 line sample of devotional verse with 2 Latin translations, a word-for-word calque copied from Vega and a second version, printed in 3 columns; the longer Quechua text includes minor spelling variants and omits lines 11 and 12 of Garcilaso's version; Book 16, chapter I gives vocabulary in the Tupi language from Brazil copied from Jean de Léry on p. 536; and Book 17, chapter XII gives vocabulary in the Arawak language from Guiana on p. 582-583
  • Signatures: *2 2-4*4 A-4K4 4L6
  • Roman numeral date on title page created with backwards c's
  • Title page printed in red and black; Elzevier printer's device with the motto "Non solus" on title page; head and tail pieces; initials
  • Errors in paging: p. 26, 28-29, and 31-32 misnumbered 30, 32-33, and 35-36
  • Errata: foot of p. [12], 3rd count
  • Includes indexes
Contents
  • [From table of contents] Des isles de l'ocean -- Nouuelle France -- Virginie -- Floride -- Nouuelle Espagne -- Nouuelle Galice -- Guatimala -- Terra Firma -- Peru -- Peru ou Charca -- Chile -- Magallanique -- Rio de la Plata -- Brasil -- Brasil Septentrional -- Guaiana -- Nouuelle Andaluzie
  • [Maps] Americae sive Indiae Occidentalis tabula generalis -- Maiores minoresqve insulae Hispaniola, Cvba Lucaiae et Caribes -- Nova Francia et regiones adiacentes -- Nova Anglia, Novvm Belgivm et Virginia -- Florida et regiones vicinae -- Nova Hispania, Nova Galicia, Gvatimala -- Tierra firma item Nvevo Reyno de Granada atque Popayan -- Perv -- Chili -- Provinciae sitae ad Fretvm Magallanis itemque Fretvm le Maire -- Paragvay, ó Prov. de Rio de la Plata: cum adiacentibus provinciis quas vocant Tvcvman, et Sta. Cruz de la Sierra -- Provincia de Brasil cvm adiacentibvs provinciis -- Gvaiana siue provinciae intra Rio de las Amazonas atque Rio de Yviapari siue Orinoqve -- Venezvela atque occidentalis pars Novae Andalvsiae
Link
https://archive.org/details/lhistoiredunouve00laet
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Label
L'histoire du nouveau monde ou Description des Indes Occidentales, : contenant dix-huict liures,
Title
L'histoire du nouveau monde ou Description des Indes Occidentales,
Title remainder
contenant dix-huict liures,
Statement of responsibility
par le Sieur Iean de Laet, d'Anuers; enrichi de nouuelles tables geographiques & figures des animaux, plantes & fruicts
Title variation
  • Histoire du nouveau monde
  • Description des Indes Occidentales
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Subject
Genre
Language
  • fre
  • lat
  • fre
Member of
Cataloging source
MNU
Citation location within source
  • 492
  • 497
  • 96
  • 1349
  • I: p. 451
  • II:1682
  • 640/1
  • 640/111
  • II:283
Citation source
  • Rahir, E. Elzevier
  • Willems, A.C.J. Les Elzevier
  • Vail, R.W.G. Old frontier
  • Rodrigues, J.H. Domínio holandês no Brasil
  • Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.)
  • Streit, R. Bib. missionum
  • Echeverria & Wilkie. French image
  • Alden, J.E. European Americana
  • JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1581-1649
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Laet, Joannes de
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
  • plates
  • music
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
dictionaries
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Botany
  • Zoology
  • Natural history
  • Wyandot language
  • Nahuatl language
  • Quechua language
  • Tupi language
  • Arawak language
  • Indian linguistics
  • Indian linguistics
  • Indian linguistics
  • Indian linguistics
  • Indian linguistics
Label
L'histoire du nouveau monde ou Description des Indes Occidentales, : contenant dix-huict liures,, par le Sieur Iean de Laet, d'Anuers; enrichi de nouuelles tables geographiques & figures des animaux, plantes & fruicts
Link
https://archive.org/details/lhistoiredunouve00laet
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Publication
Note
  • Translation of: Novus orbis seu Descriptionis Indiae Occidentalis, libri XVIII, printed in Leiden, 1633, which is an enlarged version of the author's Nieuwe wereldt ofte beschrijvinghe van West-Indien, first printed Leiden, 1625
  • Includes various specimens of indigenous language vocabularies: Book 2, chapters XII and XVI include a small list of vocabulary on p. 52 and 57, 2nd count, in the Huron language as spoken in Hochelaga, which was the indigenous name for Montréal; also includes music with Wyandot text on p. 58, 2nd count; Book 3, chapter XI gives a list of numbers and parts of the body in the "sankikan" language [cannot identify the language]; Book 5, chapter X gives a vocabulary of words and glyphs in Nahuatl on p. 153-154; Book V, chapter XIII gives a comparative Nahuatl vocabulary from the works of Gomara, Acosta, at Annales peintes on p. 162; Book 11, chapter XVIII gives "Du langue des Peruuiains & leur pöesie" on p. 405-406, which contains 2 specimens of Quechua copied from Garcilaso de la Vega, who himself cites and copies from Blas Valera; a 4 line love song with French translation, printed in 2 columns; and a 17 line sample of devotional verse with 2 Latin translations, a word-for-word calque copied from Vega and a second version, printed in 3 columns; the longer Quechua text includes minor spelling variants and omits lines 11 and 12 of Garcilaso's version; Book 16, chapter I gives vocabulary in the Tupi language from Brazil copied from Jean de Léry on p. 536; and Book 17, chapter XII gives vocabulary in the Arawak language from Guiana on p. 582-583
  • Signatures: *2 2-4*4 A-4K4 4L6
  • Roman numeral date on title page created with backwards c's
  • Title page printed in red and black; Elzevier printer's device with the motto "Non solus" on title page; head and tail pieces; initials
  • Errors in paging: p. 26, 28-29, and 31-32 misnumbered 30, 32-33, and 35-36
  • Errata: foot of p. [12], 3rd count
  • Includes indexes
Contents
  • [From table of contents] Des isles de l'ocean -- Nouuelle France -- Virginie -- Floride -- Nouuelle Espagne -- Nouuelle Galice -- Guatimala -- Terra Firma -- Peru -- Peru ou Charca -- Chile -- Magallanique -- Rio de la Plata -- Brasil -- Brasil Septentrional -- Guaiana -- Nouuelle Andaluzie
  • [Maps] Americae sive Indiae Occidentalis tabula generalis -- Maiores minoresqve insulae Hispaniola, Cvba Lucaiae et Caribes -- Nova Francia et regiones adiacentes -- Nova Anglia, Novvm Belgivm et Virginia -- Florida et regiones vicinae -- Nova Hispania, Nova Galicia, Gvatimala -- Tierra firma item Nvevo Reyno de Granada atque Popayan -- Perv -- Chili -- Provinciae sitae ad Fretvm Magallanis itemque Fretvm le Maire -- Paragvay, ó Prov. de Rio de la Plata: cum adiacentibus provinciis quas vocant Tvcvman, et Sta. Cruz de la Sierra -- Provincia de Brasil cvm adiacentibvs provinciis -- Gvaiana siue provinciae intra Rio de las Amazonas atque Rio de Yviapari siue Orinoqve -- Venezvela atque occidentalis pars Novae Andalvsiae
Extent
1 online resource ([28], 632, [12] pages, [28] leaves of plates (14 double)
Form of item
online
Other physical details
illustrations, maps, music)
Specific material designation
remote
Label
L'histoire du nouveau monde ou Description des Indes Occidentales, : contenant dix-huict liures,, par le Sieur Iean de Laet, d'Anuers; enrichi de nouuelles tables geographiques & figures des animaux, plantes & fruicts
Link
https://archive.org/details/lhistoiredunouve00laet
Publication
Note
  • Translation of: Novus orbis seu Descriptionis Indiae Occidentalis, libri XVIII, printed in Leiden, 1633, which is an enlarged version of the author's Nieuwe wereldt ofte beschrijvinghe van West-Indien, first printed Leiden, 1625
  • Includes various specimens of indigenous language vocabularies: Book 2, chapters XII and XVI include a small list of vocabulary on p. 52 and 57, 2nd count, in the Huron language as spoken in Hochelaga, which was the indigenous name for Montréal; also includes music with Wyandot text on p. 58, 2nd count; Book 3, chapter XI gives a list of numbers and parts of the body in the "sankikan" language [cannot identify the language]; Book 5, chapter X gives a vocabulary of words and glyphs in Nahuatl on p. 153-154; Book V, chapter XIII gives a comparative Nahuatl vocabulary from the works of Gomara, Acosta, at Annales peintes on p. 162; Book 11, chapter XVIII gives "Du langue des Peruuiains & leur pöesie" on p. 405-406, which contains 2 specimens of Quechua copied from Garcilaso de la Vega, who himself cites and copies from Blas Valera; a 4 line love song with French translation, printed in 2 columns; and a 17 line sample of devotional verse with 2 Latin translations, a word-for-word calque copied from Vega and a second version, printed in 3 columns; the longer Quechua text includes minor spelling variants and omits lines 11 and 12 of Garcilaso's version; Book 16, chapter I gives vocabulary in the Tupi language from Brazil copied from Jean de Léry on p. 536; and Book 17, chapter XII gives vocabulary in the Arawak language from Guiana on p. 582-583
  • Signatures: *2 2-4*4 A-4K4 4L6
  • Roman numeral date on title page created with backwards c's
  • Title page printed in red and black; Elzevier printer's device with the motto "Non solus" on title page; head and tail pieces; initials
  • Errors in paging: p. 26, 28-29, and 31-32 misnumbered 30, 32-33, and 35-36
  • Errata: foot of p. [12], 3rd count
  • Includes indexes
Contents
  • [From table of contents] Des isles de l'ocean -- Nouuelle France -- Virginie -- Floride -- Nouuelle Espagne -- Nouuelle Galice -- Guatimala -- Terra Firma -- Peru -- Peru ou Charca -- Chile -- Magallanique -- Rio de la Plata -- Brasil -- Brasil Septentrional -- Guaiana -- Nouuelle Andaluzie
  • [Maps] Americae sive Indiae Occidentalis tabula generalis -- Maiores minoresqve insulae Hispaniola, Cvba Lucaiae et Caribes -- Nova Francia et regiones adiacentes -- Nova Anglia, Novvm Belgivm et Virginia -- Florida et regiones vicinae -- Nova Hispania, Nova Galicia, Gvatimala -- Tierra firma item Nvevo Reyno de Granada atque Popayan -- Perv -- Chili -- Provinciae sitae ad Fretvm Magallanis itemque Fretvm le Maire -- Paragvay, ó Prov. de Rio de la Plata: cum adiacentibus provinciis quas vocant Tvcvman, et Sta. Cruz de la Sierra -- Provincia de Brasil cvm adiacentibvs provinciis -- Gvaiana siue provinciae intra Rio de las Amazonas atque Rio de Yviapari siue Orinoqve -- Venezvela atque occidentalis pars Novae Andalvsiae
Extent
1 online resource ([28], 632, [12] pages, [28] leaves of plates (14 double)
Form of item
online
Other physical details
illustrations, maps, music)
Specific material designation
remote

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