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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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Ambrosij Richszhoffers, braszilianisch- und west indianische Reisze Beschreibung

Description:
  • Signatures: A⁸ (-A8) B-L⁸ M⁸(-M8) (M7 verso blank)
  • Engraved title page signed: I.C.S. Frontispiece signed: J.C. Sartorius, Noribergensis.
  • Commendatory verses at the end by Johann …
Year:
1677
Contributor:
Richshoffer, Ambrosius, 1612-
Sartorius, Johann Christoph, active 1680-1739
Subject:
s-bl--- > nw-----
CPJCB
Brazil > Description and travel
Brazil > History > Dutch Conquest, 1624-1654
West Indies > Description and travel
Imprint 1677.
France > Strasbourg
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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America pars VII: Verissima et iucundissima descriptio praeciparum quarundam Indiae regionem & insularum, quae quidem nullis ante haec tempora visae cognitaeque

Description:
  • iam primum ab Vlrico Fabro Straubingensi, multo cum periculo inuentae & ab eodem summa diligentia consignatae fuerunt, ex Germanico in Latinum sermonem conuersa autore M. …
Year:
1599
Contributor:
Schmidel, Ulrich, approximately 1505-approximately 1581
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Arthus, Gotthard, 1568-
Subject:
s-bl--- > s-py---
Brazil > History > 1500-1548
Brazil > History > 1548-1580
Brazil > Description and travel
Paraguay > History > To 1811
Paraguay > Description and travel
Imprint 1599.
Germany > Frankfurt am Main
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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America pars VII: Vera et iucunda descriptio praeciparum quarundam Indiae Occidentalis regionem & insularum, quae quidem nullis ante haec, tempora visae cognitaeque

Description:
  • iam primum ab Vlrico Fabro Straubingensi, multo cum periculo perlustratae & ab eodem summa diligentia consignatae fuerunt, cum annotatione historiarum & rerum memorabilium, quae tota …
Year:
1625
Contributor:
Schmidel, Ulrich, approximately 1505-approximately 1581
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623
Arthus, Gotthard, 1568-
Subject:
s-bl--- > s-py---
Brazil > History > 1500-1548
Brazil > History > 1548-1580
Brazil > Description and travel
Paraguay > History > To 1811
Paraguay > Description and travel
Imprint 1625.
Germany > Frankfurt am Main
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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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 Memorabile[m] provinciae Brasiliae historiam contine[n]s, Germanico primùm sermone scriptam à Ioa[n]ne Stadio Hombergensi Hesso, nunc autem Latinitate donatam à Teucrio Annaeo Priuato Colchanthe Po: & Med: 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 Bry Leodiensis, …
Year:
1597
Contributor:
Staden, Hans, approximately 1525-approximately 1576
Clusius, Carolus, 1526-1609
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611
Barré, Nicolas, active 1555
Subject:
s-bl---
Staden, Hans > approximately 1525-approximately 1576
Léry, Jean de > 1534-1611
Villegaignon, Nicolas Durand de > 1510-1571?
Indians of South America > Brazil
Natural history > Brazil
Tupi language > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Indian linguistics > Tupi language
Brazil > Description and travel
Brazil > History > 1548-1580
Brazil > History > 1549-1762
Imprint 1597.
Imprint 1605.
Germany > Frankfurt am Main
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Americae tertia pars Memorabile[m] provinciae Brasiliae historiam contine[n]s, Germanico primùm sermone scriptam à Ioa[n]ne Stadio Hombergensi Hesso, nunc autem Latinitate donatam à Teucrio Annaeo Priuato Colchanthe Po: & Med: 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 Bry Leodiensis, …
Year:
1597
Contributor:
Staden, Hans, approximately 1525-approximately 1576
Clusius, Carolus, 1526-1609
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611
Barré, Nicolas, active 1555
Subject:
s-bl---
Staden, Hans > approximately 1525-approximately 1576
Léry, Jean de > 1534-1611
Villegaignon, Nicolas Durand de > 1510-1571?
Indians of South America > Brazil
Natural history > Brazil
Tupi language > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Indian linguistics > Tupi language
Brazil > Description and travel
Brazil > History > 1548-1580
Brazil > History > 1549-1762
Imprint 1597.
Imprint 1605.
Germany > Frankfurt am Main
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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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: & Med: 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 Bry Leodiensis, …
Year:
1592
Contributor:
Staden, Hans, approximately 1525-approximately 1576
Clusius, Carolus, 1526-1609
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611
Barré, Nicolas, active 1555
Subject:
s-bl---
Staden, Hans > approximately 1525-approximately 1576
Léry, Jean de > 1534-1611
Villegaignon, Nicolas Durand de > 1510-1571?
Indians of South America > Brazil
Natural history > Brazil
Tupi language > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Indian linguistics > Tupi language
Brazil > Description and travel
Brazil > History > 1548-1580
Brazil > History > 1549-1762
Imprint 1592.
Germany > Frankfurt am Main
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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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: & Med: 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 Bry Leodiensis, …
Year:
1597
Contributor:
Staden, Hans, approximately 1525-approximately 1576
Clusius, Carolus, 1526-1609
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611
Barré, Nicolas, active 1555
Subject:
s-bl---
Staden, Hans > approximately 1525-approximately 1576
Léry, Jean de > 1534-1611
Villegaignon, Nicolas Durand de > 1510-1571?
Indians of South America > Brazil
Natural history > Brazil
Tupi language > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Indian linguistics > Tupi language
Brazil > Description and travel
Brazil > History > 1548-1580
Brazil > History > 1549-1762
Imprint 1597.
Germany > Frankfurt am Main
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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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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Der americanischen Neuen Welt Beschreibung: darinnen deren Erfindung, Lager, Natur, Eigenschaft, Sitten, Barbarey, und unerhörte Grausamkeit der Einwohner, Thier, Vögel, Fischen und anderer; beneben einer wunderbaren Schifffart und Reisebeschreibung nach Brasilien Hans von Staden, bürtig aus Homburg in Hessen; was er vor selzame wunderbare Länder und wilde Leute gesehen; was er innerhalb acht Jahren ausgestanden, und wie der högste Gott ihn aus so vielfaltiger groser Gefahr errettet habe &c. Mit vielen nachdenklichen Fragen und nothwendigen Figuren ausgezieret und zusammen getragen

Description:
  • durch Hans Just Wynkelmann.
  • Added title page, engraved and illustrated, folded, 16x22 cm. Title as: Hans Just Winkelmans Americanischer Neuer Welt Beschreibung. Gedruckt zu Oldenburg …
Year:
1664
Contributor:
Winckelmann, Johann Just, 1620-1699
Staden, Hans, approximately 1525-approximately 1576
Subject:
n------ > s------
America > Discovery and exploration
Brazil > Description and travel
Imprint 1664.
Germany > Oldenburg
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Aqueduct and convent of Saint Teresa, Rio de Janeiro

Description:
Engraving of convent in Rio de Janeiro
Year:
1854
Contributor:
Hadfield, William, 1806-1887 (creator)
Genre:
engravings (prints)
Subject:
Brazil > Description and travel
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) > Description and travel
Local ID:
F2513 .H12 1854
Collection:
Brown University Library
Brown Olio
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Arte de navegar, em que se ensinão as regras praticas, e os modos de cartear, e de graduar a balestilha por via de numeros, e muitos problemas uteis á navegação: e roteiro das viagens, e costas maritimas de Guiné, Angola, Brazil, Indias, e Ilhas Occidentaes, e Orientaes, novamente emendado, e accrescentadas muitas derrotas

Description:
  • "Based on a work of the author's father, Luiz Serrão Pimentel, posthumously published by his son in Lisbon, 1681, with title: Arte pratica de navegar, …
Year:
1762
Contributor:
Pimentel, Manuel, 1650-1719
Pimentel, Luís Serrão, 1613-1679
Subject:
s-bl--- > af----- > ii-----
CPJCB
Navigation
Pilot guides
Brazil > Description and travel
South America > Description and travel
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Bilder aus dem Menschenleben 1

Description:
Various scenes throughout Brazil.
Year:
1966
Contributor:
Spix, Johann Baptist von, 1781-1826 (creator)
Genre:
engravings (prints)
Subject:
Piauí (Brazil) > Views
Sã Paulo (Brazil) > Views
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) > Views
Bahia (Brazil) > Views
Mines and mineral resources > Brazil
Indians of South America > Brazil
Brazil > Description and travel
Local ID:
2-SIZE F2511 .S753 1966 Atlas
Collection:
Brown University Library
Brown Olio
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Botica preciosa, e thesouro precioso da Lapa: em que como em botica, e thesouro se achaõ todos os remedios para o corpo, para a alma, e para a vida, e huma receita das vocaçoens dos Santos para remedio de todas as enfermidades, e varios remedios, e milagres de N[ossa] Senhora da Lapa, e muitas novenas, devoçoens, e avisos importantes para os pays de familia ensinarem a doutrina Christã, e seus filhos, e criados

Description:
  • Composta, e descuberto pelo missionario apostolico Angelo de Sequeira, protonotario apostolico de D. Santidade, do habito de Saõ Pedro, natural de cidade de S. Paulo …
Year:
1754
Contributor:
Sequeira, Angelo de, -1776
Subject:
s-bl---
Catholic Church > Missions > Brazil
Paulist Fathers > Brazil
Paulist Fathers > Missions > Brazil
Catholic Church > Prayers and devotions
Spiritual exercises
Devotional exercises
Brazil > Description and travel
Imprint 1754.
Portugal > Lisbon
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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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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Chronica da Companhia de Jesu do estado do Brasil e do que obraram seus filhos n'esta parte do Novo Mundo: Em que se trata da entrada da Companhia de Jesu nas partes do Brasil

Description:
  • Originally published: Lisbon,1663.
  • Edited by I. F. da Silva.
  • Edition statement appears before "Volume I[-II]" on title page.
  • Vol. 1:CLVI,200p.; v2:339,[5]p.
  • Errata statement, v.2, p.[2-5] …
Contributor:
Vasconcellos, Simão de, 1597-1671
Anchieta, José de, 1534-1597
Nobrega, Manuel da, 1519-1570
Subject:
Nobrega, Manuel da > 1519-1570
Jesuits > Brazil
Brazil > Description and travel
Portugal > Lisbon
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Chronica da Companhia de Jesu do estado do Brasil e do que obraram seus filhos n'esta parte do Novo Mundo: Em que se trata da entrada da Companhia de Jesu nas partes do Brasil

Description:
  • Originally published: Lisbon,1663.
  • Edited by I. F. da Silva.
  • Edition statement appears before "Volume I[-II]" on title page.
  • Vol. 1:CLVI,200p.; v2:339,[5]p.
  • Errata statement, v.2, p.[2-5] …
Contributor:
Vasconcellos, Simão de, 1597-1671
Anchieta, José de, 1534-1597
Nobrega, Manuel da, 1519-1570
Subject:
Nobrega, Manuel da > 1519-1570
Jesuits > Brazil
Brazil > Description and travel
Portugal > Lisbon
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Chronica da Companhia de Jesu do estado do Brasil: e do que obrarão seus filhos nesta parte do Nouo Mundo: Tomo primeiro da entrada da Companhia de Jesu nas partes do Brasil. E dos fundamentos que nellas lançârão, & continuarão seus religiosos em quanto alli trabalhou o padre Manoel da Nobrega ... e algas noticias antecedentes curiosas, & necessarias das cousas daquelle estado

Description:
  • pello padre Simão de Vasconcellos da mesma companhia. ..
  • No more published.
  • Signatures: pi(-pi4) (pi2+[cross]²) 2[cross]²A-Y Z²(-z2) a² ²A-3V a b² (²x missigned ²V)
  • Engraved …
Year:
1663
Contributor:
Vasconcellos, Simão de, 1597-1671
Anchieta, José de, 1534-1597
Subject:
s-bl---
Nobrega, Manuel da > 1519-1570
Jesuits > Brazil
Brazil > Description and travel
Imprint 1663.
Portugal > Lisbon
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Compendio de observaçoens: que fórmaõ o plano da viagem politica, e filosofica, que se deve fazer dentra da patria. Dedicado a Sua Alteza Real o Serenissimo Principe do Brasil

Description:
  • pelo doutor José Antonio de Sá oppositor as codeirs de leis da Universidade de Coimbra, a correspondente da Academia das Sciencias de Lisboa.
  • "Parte I. …
Year:
1783
Contributor:
Sá, José Antonio de, d. 1819
Subject:
e-po--- > s-bl---
Natural history > Portugal > Colonies
Mines and mineral resources > Portugal > Colonies
Silk industry > Portugal
Brazil > Description and travel
Imprint 1783.
Portugal > Lisbon
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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