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| | Ethnography, Asherbooks Rare Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19) |
 | | With publisher’s device on the title-page, 1 large folding and 7 full-page woodcut illustrations, numerous woodcut headpieces, tailpieces and decorated initial letters, and roman, italic, Greek and 2 sorts of music type. |
| | Levy gives an account of his voyage, the fish, climate, flora, fauna and people of Brazil, their rituals, including one of the earliest descriptions of the making and ritual smoking of tobacco cigars, and the first documentation of their music (with 4 short samples of printed music, using both diamond-head and tear-drop-head notes). |
| | Although Villegagnon had explicitly asked Calvin to send Protestants for the colony, he persecuted them terribly, and in 1558 De Léry escaped with some others, taking refuge with the Indians (providing an unusually intimate and sympathetic acquaintance with their culture) and later making his way to France. |
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