Early English Account of Colonial Mexico Thomas Gage 1648 GAGE, Thomas (c.1596-1656). The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land: or, A New Survey of the West-India's, containing a journall of three thousand and three hundred miles within the main Land of America. London: R. Cotes, sold by Humphrey Blunden and Thomas Williams 1648. First edition of an early English account of colonial Mexico, with a grammar of the Poqomchi’ Mayan language. Thomas Gage lived and travelled in the West Indies, Central America, and the west coast of North America from 1625 to 1637. Raised Catholic, he converted to Protestantism on his return to Europe. The publication of this work "caused a remarkable sensation. His account of the wealth and defenseless 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). Alden & Landis 648/68; JCB (3) II:369; Palau y Dulcet 96480; Sabin 26298; Wing G-109. Folio (269 x 172mm). Contemporary map traced in ink on preliminary blank flyleaf preceding title page (small iron gall ink burn not affecting map; toned, especially first few leaves and final leaves). 20th-century half calf over marbled boards, green calf titling pieces (Zambrano library label on front pastedown). Provenance: Early marginalia on pp. 205 and 208.
Early English Account of Colonial Mexico Thomas Gage 1648 GAGE, Thomas (c.1596-1656). The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land: or, A New Survey of the West-India's, containing a journall of three thousand and three hundred miles within the main Land of America. London: R. Cotes, sold by Humphrey Blunden and Thomas Williams 1648. First edition of an early English account of colonial Mexico, with a grammar of the Poqomchi’ Mayan language. Thomas Gage lived and travelled in the West Indies, Central America, and the west coast of North America from 1625 to 1637. Raised Catholic, he converted to Protestantism on his return to Europe. The publication of this work "caused a remarkable sensation. His account of the wealth and defenseless 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). Alden & Landis 648/68; JCB (3) II:369; Palau y Dulcet 96480; Sabin 26298; Wing G-109. Folio (269 x 172mm). Contemporary map traced in ink on preliminary blank flyleaf preceding title page (small iron gall ink burn not affecting map; toned, especially first few leaves and final leaves). 20th-century half calf over marbled boards, green calf titling pieces (Zambrano library label on front pastedown). Provenance: Early marginalia on pp. 205 and 208.
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