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Latin American Travelogues

The Latin American Travelogues digital collection draws on the expertise of Prof. James N. Green, Professor of Latin American history; Patricia Figueroa, Curator of Iberian and Latin American Collections; students; and the staff of the Center for Digital Scholarship. It is a digital collection of Latin American travel accounts written in the 16th-19th centuries, a free-access visual and research tool for students and scholars alike.

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Acclamation de Don Pédro 1er empereur du Brésil: au camp de Sta Anna, à Rio-de-Janeiro

Description:
Depicts Don Pedro, first emperor of Brazil, being cheered in Rio-de-Janeiro
Year:
1800
Contributor:
Debret, J. B. (artist)
Thierry Frères (lithographer)
Genre:
lithographs
Subject:
Pedro > 1798-1834 > I, Emperor of Brazil
Brazil > History > Empire, 1822-1889
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) > Views
Collection:
Latin American Travelogues
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Admiranda narratio, fida tamen, de commodis et incolarvm ritibvs Virginiae... Anglico scripta sermone à Thoma Hariot

Description:
  • nvnc avtem primvm Latio donata à C. C. A.
  • Illus. 1-23 have title: Vivæ imagines et ritvs incolarvm eivs provinciæ in America, quæ Virginia appelata …
Year:
1590
Contributor:
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598 (editor)
Clusius, Carolus, 1526-1609 (translator)
White, John, active 1585-1593 (illustrator)
Subject:
n-us--va
Indians of North America > Virginia
Virginia > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Sources
Roanoke Colony
Virginia > Description and travel
Collection:
Brown University Library
Latin American Travelogues
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The Amazon and Madeira rivers: sketches and descriptions from the note-book of an explorer

Description:
  • by Franz Keller, engineer.
Year:
1875
Contributor:
Keller, Franz, 1835-1890 (creator)
Genre:
books
Subject:
Indians of South America > Brazil
Mojo Indians
Madeira River (Brazil and Bolivia)
Amazon River
Brazil > Description and travel
Collection:
Brown University Library
Latin American Travelogues
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Americae pars sexta: Sive, Historiae ab Hieronymo Bezono scriptae, sectio tertia ... In hac ... reperies, qua ratione Hispani ... Peruäni regni provincias occuparint, capto rege Atabaliba ... Additus est ... de Fortunatis insulis comentariolus ... Accessit Per̈vani regni chorographica tabula

Description:
  • Omnia ... figuris in aes incisis expressa á Theodoro de Bry
  • First t.p. apparently supplied from 1st ed.
  • Copy imperfect: fold. map and plan wanting. …
Year:
1617
Contributor:
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598 (creator)
Benzoni, Girolamo, 1519-
Subject:
Peru > History > Conquest, 1522-1548
America > Early accounts to 1600
Canary Islands > Description and travel
Florida > History > Huguenot colony, 1562-1565
Collection:
Brown University Library
Latin American Travelogues
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Americae tertia pars memorabile[m] provinciae Brasiliae historiam: contine[n]s germanico primùm sermone scriptam à Ioa[n]ne Stadio Homburgensi Hesso, nunc autem latinitate donatam à Teucrio Annaeo Priuato Colchanthe Po[eta] & Med[ico] Addita est Narratio profectionis Ioannis Lerij in eamdem Provinciam, qua[m] ille initio gallicè conscripsit, postea verò Latinam fecit. His accessit descriptio morum & ferocitatis incolarum illius regionis, atque colloquium ipsorum idiomate conscriptum

Description:
  • omnia recens evulgata & eiconibus in aes incisis ac ad vivum expressis illustrata, ad normam exemplaris praedictorum autorum ; studio & diligentia Theodori de Brÿ …
Year:
1592
Contributor:
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598 (creator)
Lonicerus, Johann Adam, 1557- (translator)
Subject:
Villegaignon, Nicolas Durand de > 1510-1571?
Indians of South America > Brazil
Tupinamba Indians
Tupi language
Brazil > Description and travel
America > Early accounts to 1600
Germany > Frankfurt
Collection:
Brown University Library
Latin American Travelogues
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Americae tertia pars memorabilē provinciæ Brasiliæ historiam: continēs germanico primùm sermone scriptam à Ioāne Stadio Homburgensi Hesso, nunc autem latinitate donatam à Teucrio Annæo Priuato Colchanthe Po[eta] & Med[ico] Addita est narratio profectionis Ioannis Lerij in eamdem Provinciam, quā ille initio gallicè conscripsit, postea verò Latinam fecit. His accessit descriptio morum & ferocitatis incolarum illius regionis, atque colloquium ipsorum idiomate conscriptum

Description:
  • omnia recens evulgata & eiconibus in aes incisis ac ad vivum expressis illustrata, ad normam exemplaris praedictorum autorum ; studio & diligentia Theodori de Bry. …
Year:
1592
Contributor:
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598 (creator)
Lonicerus, Johann Adam, b. 1557 (translator)
Subject:
s-bl--- > n------ > s------
Villegaignon, Nicholas Durand de > 1510-1571?
Indians of South America > Brazil
Tupinamba Indians
Tupi language
Brazil > Description and travel
America > Early accounts to 1600
Germany > Frankfurt
Collection:
Brown University Library
Latin American Travelogues
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Americæ pars quinta: Nobilis ... Hieronymi Bezoni secundæ sectionis Hispanorum, tùm in nigrittas ... tùm in Indos crudelitatem, Gallorumque piratarū de Hispanis toties reportata spolia ; adventū item Hispanorū in Novam Indiæ continentis Hispaniam, eorumque contra incolas eius regionis sævitiam explicans. Addita ... scholia, in quibus res Indiæ luculenter exponuntur. Accessit tabula chorographica Novæ Hispaniæ. Omnia figuris in æs incisis expressa à Theodore de Bry

Description:
  • Plates have special engr. t.p.
  • Urbain Chauveton's translation (and notes) of bk. 2. of Benzoni's Historia del Mondo Nuovo.
  • First ed., 1st issue. Cf. Church. …
Year:
1595
Contributor:
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598 (creator)
Subject:
America > Early accounts to 1600
Latin America > History > To 1600
Collection:
Brown University Library
Latin American Travelogues
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Brazil and the Brazilians: portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches

Description:
  • by Rev. D.P. Kidder, and Rev. J.C. Fletcher ; illustrated by one hundred and fifty engravings.
  • 122 wood-engr. ill.; incl. 2 showing uniforms.
Year:
1857
Contributor:
Kidder, Daniel P. (Daniel Parish), 1815-1891 (creator)
Fletcher, James C. (James Cooley), 1823-1901 (creator)
Subject:
Brazil > Description and travel
Brazil > Social life and customs
Brazil > History
Collection:
Brown University Library
Latin American Travelogues
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Brevis narratio eorvm qvæ in Florida Americæ prov̇icia Gallis acciderunt: secunda in illam nauigatione, duce Renato de Laudōniere ... anno MDLXIIII. Qvae est secvnda pars Americae

Description:
  • Auctore Iacobo Le Moyne, cui cognomen de Morgues ... Nunc primùm Gallico sermone à Theodoro de Bry Leodiense in lucem edita: Latio verò donata a …
Year:
1591
Contributor:
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598 (editor)
Subject:
Indians of North America
Florida > Description and travel
Florida > History > Huguenot colony, 1562-1565
Collection:
Brown University Library
Latin American Travelogues
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Historia de la villa imperial de Potosí

Description:
  • por Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela ; edición de Lewis Hanke y Gunnar Mendoza.
  • Transcription of manuscripts in the John Hay Library, Brown University, …
Year:
1965
Contributor:
Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela, Bartolomé, 1676-1736
Hanke, Lewis.
Mendoza L., Gunnar.
Subject:
s-bo---
Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela, Bartolomé > 1676-1736
Church, George Earl > 1835-1910
Silver industry > Bolivia > Potosí (Department) > History > 17th century
Potosí (Bolivia) > History
United States > Rhode Island > Providence
Collection:
Latin American Travelogues
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Historia de la villa imperial de Potosí

Description:
  • por Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela ; edición de Lewis Hanke y Gunnar Mendoza.
  • Transcription of manuscripts in the John Hay Library, Brown University, …
Year:
1965
Contributor:
Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela, Bartolomé, 1676-1736
Hanke, Lewis.
Mendoza L., Gunnar.
Subject:
s-bo---
Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela, Bartolomé > 1676-1736
Church, George Earl > 1835-1910
Silver industry > Bolivia > Potosí (Department) > History > 17th century
Potosí (Bolivia) > History
United States > Rhode Island > Providence
Collection:
Latin American Travelogues
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Historia de la villa imperial de Potosí

Description:
  • por Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela ; edición de Lewis Hanke y Gunnar Mendoza.
  • Transcription of manuscripts in the John Hay Library, Brown University, …
Year:
1965
Contributor:
Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela, Bartolomé, 1676-1736
Hanke, Lewis.
Mendoza L., Gunnar.
Subject:
s-bo---
Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela, Bartolomé > 1676-1736
Church, George Earl > 1835-1910
Silver industry > Bolivia > Potosí (Department) > History > 17th century
Potosí (Bolivia) > History
United States > Rhode Island > Providence
Collection:
Latin American Travelogues
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Historia de la villa imperial de Potosí: riquesas incomparables de su famoso cero, grandesasde su magnanima poblacion, sus gueras civiles y casos memorables

Description:
  • Por Bartholome Arzay Sanches y Vela
  • Manuscript of "primera parte" of the complete work; of uncertain origin and provenance before it was purchased in 1905, …
Year:
1700
Contributor:
Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela, Bartolomé, 1676-1736 (creator)
Genre:
books
Subject:
Manuscripts, Spanish > Rhode Island > Providence
Potosíí (Bolivia) > History > Early works to 1800
Local ID:
Ms. Spanish Codex 2
Collection:
Brown University Library
Latin American Travelogues
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A journey in Brazil

Description:
  • By Professor and Mrs. Louis Agassiz.
Year:
1868
Contributor:
Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 (creator)
Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907 (creator)
Subject:
Geology > Amazon River Valley
Brazil > Description and travel
Collection:
Brown University Library
Latin American Travelogues
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Life in Brazil; or, A journal of a visit to the land of the cocoa and the palm

Description:
  • With an appendix, containing illustrations of ancient South American arts ... by Thomas Ewbank ..
Year:
1856
Contributor:
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 (creator)
Subject:
Brazil > Description and travel
Brazil > Social life and customs
Brazil > Antiquities
Collection:
Brown University Library
Latin American Travelogues
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Navigatio in Brasiliam Americae: qua auctoris navigatio, quæ memoriæ prodenda in mari viderit, Brasiliensium victur & mores à mostris valde aliem, animalia etiam, arbores, hervæ, & reliqua fingularia nostris penitus incognita describuntur: adjectus insuper dialugus eorum lingua conscriptus: a Ioanne Lerio Burgundo

Description:
  • Gallicè primù scripta, deinde latinate donato variis autem figuris illustrata per Theodorum de Bry Leo.
  • Imprint from colophon.
  • Includes index.
Year:
1592
Contributor:
Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1528-1598 (creator)
Lonicerus, Johann Adam, b. 1557 (translator)
Subject:
s-bl--- > n------ > s------
Indians of South America > Brazil
Tupinamba Indians
Tupi language
Brazil > Description and travel
America > Early accounts to 1600
Germany > Frankfurt
Collection:
Brown University Library
Latin American Travelogues
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Navigatio in Brasiliam Americæ qua auctoris navigatio, quæ memoriæ prodenda in mari viderit, Brasiliensium victus & mores °a nostris valde alieni, animalia etiam, arbores, herbæ, & reliqua singularia nostris penitus incognita describuntur: adjectus insuper dialogus eorum lingua conscriptus

Description:
  • a Ioanne Lerio Burgundo gallic°e prim°um scripta, deinde latinitate donata varijs autem figuris illustrata per Theodorum de Bry Leo. Venales reperiutur in officina Sigismundi Feierabendii
Year:
1592
Contributor:
Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611 (creator)
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598 (illustrator)
Subject:
s-bl---
Indians of South America > Brazil
Tupi language
Brazil > Description and travel
Collection:
Brown University Library
Latin American Travelogues
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North and South America. A discourse delivered before the Rhode-Island Historical Society, December 27, 1865

Description:
  • By His Excellency, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Argentine Minister to the United States
Year:
1866
Contributor:
Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino, 1811-1888 (creator)
Rhode Island Historical Society (creator)
Genre:
pamphlets
Subject:
South America > Politics and government > 1830-
Collection:
Latin American Travelogues
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Notices of Brazil in 1828 and 1829 Vol. I

Description:
  • By the Rev. R. Walsh.
Year:
1830
Contributor:
Walsh, R. (Robert), 1772-1852 (creator)
Subject:
Brazil > Description and travel
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) > Description and travel
Brazil > History
Collection:
Brown University Library
Latin American Travelogues
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Notices of Brazil in 1828 and 1829 Vol. II

Description:
  • By the Rev. R. Walsh.
Year:
1830
Contributor:
Walsh, R. (Robert), 1772-1852 (creator)
Subject:
Brazil > Description and travel
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) > Description and travel
Brazil > History
Collection:
Brown University Library
Latin American Travelogues
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