Gage, Thomas A New Survey of the West-Indies, being a Journal
Gage, Thomas A New Survey of the West-Indies, being a Journal of Three thousand and Three hundred Miles within the main Land of America, by Tho. Gage, the only Protestant that was ever known to have travel'd those Parts. Setting forth his voyage from Spain to S. John de Ulhua, and thence of Xalapa, Tlaxcalla, the City of Angels, and Mexico: With a Description of that great City... Likewise His Journey thence through Guaxaca, Chiapa, Guatemala, Vera Paz, &c. with his abode XII years about Guatemala, His wonderful Conversion and Calling to his Native Country: With his Return through Nicaragua and Costa Rica, to Nicoya, Panama, Porto bello, Cartagena and Havana... with a Grammar, or some few Rudiments of the Indian Tongue, called Poconchi or Pocoman. London: By M. Clark for J. Nicolson and T. Newborough, 1699. Fourth edition, 8vo, [A4, B1 - II7], very erratic pagination but complete, folding map ('A New Mapp of the Empire of Mexico'), contemporary calf, corners neatly repaired, neatly rebacked, armorial bookplate of Baron Northwick Qty: (1) Note: A classic account of 17th century Mexico and the West Indies. Gage lived for many years as a Dominican friar in Antigua, Guatemala. He later became the chaplain to English forces stationed in Jamaica. First published in 1648 under the title The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land, this fourth edition is enlarged and includes a fine early map of Mexico and the West Indies engraved by Francis Lamb. The publication of this work "caused a remarkable sensation. His account of the wealth and defenceless condition of the Spanish possessions in South America excited the cupidity of the English, and it is said that Gage himself laid before Cromwell the first regular plan for mastering the Spanish territories in the New World... He was appointed chaplain to General Venables's expedition, which sailed under Venables and Penn for Hispaniola... The fleet failed at Hispaniola, but took Jamaica, where Gage died in 1656" (DNB). The text describes Catholic missions in Mexico, and contains many ethnographic observations, including a grammar of the Pokonchi language. Provenance: John Rushout, 1st Baron Northwick (1738-1800), M.P. for Evesham
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Gage, Thomas A New Survey of the West-Indies, being a Journal of Three thousand and Three hundred Miles within the main Land of America, by Tho. Gage, the only Protestant that was ever known to have travel'd those Parts. Setting forth his voyage from Spain to S. John de Ulhua, and thence of Xalapa, Tlaxcalla, the City of Angels, and Mexico: With a Description of that great City... Likewise His Journey thence through Guaxaca, Chiapa, Guatemala, Vera Paz, &c. with his abode XII years about Guatemala, His wonderful Conversion and Calling to his Native Country: With his Return through Nicaragua and Costa Rica, to Nicoya, Panama, Porto bello, Cartagena and Havana... with a Grammar, or some few Rudiments of the Indian Tongue, called Poconchi or Pocoman. London: By M. Clark for J. Nicolson and T. Newborough, 1699. Fourth edition, 8vo, [A4, B1 - II7], very erratic pagination but complete, folding map ('A New Mapp of the Empire of Mexico'), contemporary calf, corners neatly repaired, neatly rebacked, armorial bookplate of Baron Northwick Qty: (1) Note: A classic account of 17th century Mexico and the West Indies. Gage lived for many years as a Dominican friar in Antigua, Guatemala. He later became the chaplain to English forces stationed in Jamaica. First published in 1648 under the title The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land, this fourth edition is enlarged and includes a fine early map of Mexico and the West Indies engraved by Francis Lamb. The publication of this work "caused a remarkable sensation. His account of the wealth and defenceless condition of the Spanish possessions in South America excited the cupidity of the English, and it is said that Gage himself laid before Cromwell the first regular plan for mastering the Spanish territories in the New World... He was appointed chaplain to General Venables's expedition, which sailed under Venables and Penn for Hispaniola... The fleet failed at Hispaniola, but took Jamaica, where Gage died in 1656" (DNB). The text describes Catholic missions in Mexico, and contains many ethnographic observations, including a grammar of the Pokonchi language. Provenance: John Rushout, 1st Baron Northwick (1738-1800), M.P. for Evesham
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