A NEW SURVEY OF THE WEST-INDIA'S:; Or, The English American his Travail by Sea and Land: CONTAINING A Journal of Three thousand and Three hundred Miles within the main Land of AMERICA. Wherein is set forth his Voyage from Spain to St. John de Vlhua; and from thence to Xalappa, to Tlaxcalla, the City of Angels, and forward to Mexico; With the description of that great City, as it was in former times, and also at this present. Likewise, his Journey from Mexico, through the Provinces of Guaxaca, Chiapa, Guatemala, Vera Paz, Truxillo, Comayagua; with his abode Twelve years about Guatemala, and especialy in the Indian-Towns of Mixco, Pinola, Petapa, Amatitlan. As also his strange and wonderfull Conversion and Calling from those remote Parts, to his Native Countrey. With his return through the Province of Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, to Nicoya, Panama, Portobelo, Cartagena, and Havana, with divers Occurrents and Dangers that did befal in the said Journey. Also, A New and Exact Discovery of the Spanish NAVIGATION to t by GAGE, Thomas - 1655

London: E. Cotes and sold by John Sweeting, 1655. Second edition, enlarged by the Author, and beautified with maps. Large 8vo, pp. 220, plus a table of chapters with "contents of the most remarkable passages..." Brown marbled paper, with 3/4 calf. Three fold-out maps (of four) engraved maps: North and South America (lacking); West-Indies; New Spain (central Mexico with Pacific Coast); and "Terra Firma et Novum Regnum Granatense et Popaian" (the southern half of Central America with northwest regions of South America) A little foxing throughout, and some moisture-staining, but text clearly legible. Lacks corner of F2 (afectng a few letters)Cover little scuffed and worn; two front blanks worn, owner's bookplate on pastedown, and notes by various (?) owners on front blanks. Wing G-113; Sabin 26299; JCB, II 448-449. The first non-Sanish description of the Spanish dominions of the new world. Gage spent most of 12 years in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Panama, living among the Indians and occasionally serving as parish priest or professor of philosophy. Upon his return (escape, funded by the theft of his pasioner's contributions) to England he converted to the Church of England and wrote his book, which caused an immediate sensation for its revelations of the wealth and defenselessness of the Spanish American colonies. Cromwell appointed him chaplain to the forces going to capture Jamaica and he died there.