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Premier liure des serees

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Notes:
de Guillavme Bouchet, sieur de Brocourt. Reueu & augmenté par l'autheur en ceste derniere edition, presque de moitié
Parts 2 and 3 were also printed in Paris by Jeremie Perier in the same year.
Essays and stories related at the soirées of Guillaume Bouchet.
Includes references to the effects on water ecology by the natives of Brazil and Florida (leaf 50 verso-51 recto), a narration of a traveller to America reporting on the dance and music of the natives of Brazil (leaf 118 recto-118 verso), and a "devil" called "Aignan" recognized the Indians of America (leaf 149 verso) among others.
Signatures: ã¹² (ã1 verso blank) ẽ⁸ A-2I¹² 2K⁴ (2K4 blank)
Errors in foliation: leaf 385-387 misnumbered 585, 586, and 587.
Woodcut printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Citation

"Premier liure des serees" (1608). John Carter Brown Library. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:731315/

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