[Americana] Gage, Tho(mas). A Survey of the Spanish-West-Indies. Being a Journal of Three thousand and Three hundred Miles on the Continent of America... London: Thomas Horne, 1702. Reissue of the fourth edition of 1699, with a cancel title-page. 8vo. (viii), 1-384, 387-477, (xviii) pp. (pagination continuous, but misnumbered from 387). Illustrated with a large folding map of Mexico. Contemporary or near-contemporary tan calf, stamped and paneled in blind, front joint cracked, but holding, tape residue on spine and joints, wear to corners; top edge of text trimmed close to headlines, tape residue on front hinge, scattered light foxing; book-plates on front paste-down and front free endpaper. Sabin 26302; ESTC N24402. First published in 1648 as 'The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land: Or, a New Survey of the West Indias'. "[Gage] was the first person to give the world a description of vast regions from which all foreigners had been jealousy excluded by the Spanish authorities." (DNB VII:794)
[Americana] Gage, Tho(mas). A Survey of the Spanish-West-Indies. Being a Journal of Three thousand and Three hundred Miles on the Continent of America... London: Thomas Horne, 1702. Reissue of the fourth edition of 1699, with a cancel title-page. 8vo. (viii), 1-384, 387-477, (xviii) pp. (pagination continuous, but misnumbered from 387). Illustrated with a large folding map of Mexico. Contemporary or near-contemporary tan calf, stamped and paneled in blind, front joint cracked, but holding, tape residue on spine and joints, wear to corners; top edge of text trimmed close to headlines, tape residue on front hinge, scattered light foxing; book-plates on front paste-down and front free endpaper. Sabin 26302; ESTC N24402. First published in 1648 as 'The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land: Or, a New Survey of the West Indias'. "[Gage] was the first person to give the world a description of vast regions from which all foreigners had been jealousy excluded by the Spanish authorities." (DNB VII:794)
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