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THOMAS GAGE (d.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. 2° (28 x 18.5cm). (Lacks first blank, worm-track running throughout with occasional loss of characters, S5 torn and detached, small tears to N3 and S2.) Contemporary speckled sheep (late-18th century rebacking, joints somewhat split, neat later repair to head of spine). Provenance: George, Lord Hylton (armorial bookplate).
Thomas Gage lived and travelled in the West Indies, Central America and the west coast of North America from 1625 to 1637. Raised a 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 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). Wing G-109; Sabin 26298
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. 2° (28 x 18.5cm). (Lacks first blank, worm-track running throughout with occasional loss of characters, S5 torn and detached, small tears to N3 and S2.) Contemporary speckled sheep (late-18th century rebacking, joints somewhat split, neat later repair to head of spine). Provenance: George, Lord Hylton (armorial bookplate).
Thomas Gage lived and travelled in the West Indies, Central America and the west coast of North America from 1625 to 1637. Raised a 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 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). Wing G-109; Sabin 26298