Author: GAGE, Thomas.
Title: Nieuwe ende seer naeuwkeurige reyse door de Spaensche West-Indien. Overgeset door H.v. Q(uellenburgh).
Description: Utrecht, Johannes Ribbius, 1682. 4to. Contemporary vellum. With engraved frontispiece, 3 double-page maps of Mexico, South America and Guatemala, and 8 plates (2 double-page). (18),450,(68) pp. First Dutch edition; first published in London in 1648 The English-American his travail by sea and land: or a new survey of the West-India's, containing a journall of three thousend and three hundred miles within the main land of America. With the bookplates of J.W. Six and F.C. Koch. - Gage, originally belonged to the Dominican order, and served as a missionary priest in Mexico, going out in 1625. His book, published in 1648, created a sensation at the time. In it the author describes Mexico and the wealth of South America, commenting upon the ease with which it could be conquerred. Gage's description of the vast regions from which all foreigners had been jealously excluded by the Spanish authorities is possible responsible for generating the English attacks on Spanish territories during Cromwell's government - Agebrowned otherwise fine. JCB p.99; Muller, America 610; European Americana IV, p. 194; Tiele 366; Cat. NHSM I, p.265; Sabin 26310; Howgego p.410; Cox II, p.237.
Keywords: America Dutch travel Mexico South America
Title: Nieuwe ende seer naeuwkeurige reyse door de Spaensche West-Indien. Overgeset door H.v. Q(uellenburgh).
Description: Utrecht, Johannes Ribbius, 1682. 4to. Contemporary vellum. With engraved frontispiece, 3 double-page maps of Mexico, South America and Guatemala, and 8 plates (2 double-page). (18),450,(68) pp. First Dutch edition; first published in London in 1648 The English-American his travail by sea and land: or a new survey of the West-India's, containing a journall of three thousend and three hundred miles within the main land of America. With the bookplates of J.W. Six and F.C. Koch. - Gage, originally belonged to the Dominican order, and served as a missionary priest in Mexico, going out in 1625. His book, published in 1648, created a sensation at the time. In it the author describes Mexico and the wealth of South America, commenting upon the ease with which it could be conquerred. Gage's description of the vast regions from which all foreigners had been jealously excluded by the Spanish authorities is possible responsible for generating the English attacks on Spanish territories during Cromwell's government - Agebrowned otherwise fine. JCB p.99; Muller, America 610; European Americana IV, p. 194; Tiele 366; Cat. NHSM I, p.265; Sabin 26310; Howgego p.410; Cox II, p.237.
Keywords: America Dutch travel Mexico South America
Price: EUR 3025.00 = appr. US$ 3287.71 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 32497
- Book number: 32497