Nouvelle relation, contenant les voyages de Thomas Gage dans la Nouvelle Espagne, ses diverses avantures, & son retour par la province de Nicaragua, jusques a la Havane : avec la description de la ville de Mexique telle qu'elle estoit autrefois, & comme elle est a present : ensemble une description exacte des terres & provinces que possedent les espagnols en toute l'Amerique, de la forme de leur gouvernement ecclesiastique & politique, de leur commerce, de leurs moeurs, & de celles des criolles, des metifs, des mulatres, des Indiens, & des negres (2 volume set)
by Thomas Gage; Adrien Baillet
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Amsterdam : Paul Marret, 1694-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volume set. 12mo. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked with original spine laid on. Generally sound internally; with clean, white, unmarked pages. Collated. 4 fold out maps + 12 folding plates of Latin American cities or provinces, and 2 frontispieces. 18 plates total. <br> An important and influential book on early European travel and settlement of Spanish America. Gage was an English traveler, missionary, and member of the Dominican order. He traveled throughout the Spanish New World and lived in Guatemala. After suffering a crisis of faith, he renounced his Catholic religion and returned to Cromwellian England. He published his English-American; or New Survey of the West India's in 1648. His account of the richness and weakness of the Spanish possessions helped inspire the English conquest of Jamaica and attempted conquest of Hispaniola under General Robert Venable and Sir William Penn's expedition. Gage was Venable's chaplain on the expedition and died in the State's service in Jamaica, 1656. Ref: DNB00. The translator is said to have been Adrien Baillet.--Sabin 26303.
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- Nouvelle relation, contenant les voyages de Thomas Gage dans la Nouvelle Espagne, ses diverses avantures, & son retour par la province de Nicaragua, jusques a la Havane : avec la description de la ville de Mexique telle qu'elle estoit autrefois, & comme elle est a present : ensemble une description exacte des terres & provinces que possedent les espagnols en toute l'Amerique, de la forme de leur gouvernement ecclesiastique & politique, de leur commerce, de leurs moeurs, & de celles des criolles, des metifs, des mulatres, des Indiens, & des negres (2 volume set)
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- Thomas Gage; Adrien Baillet
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