A New Survey of the West-Indies, Being A Joumal of Three thousand and Three hundred Miles within the Land of America. By Tho. Gage, the only Protestant that was ever known to have travel'd those Parts. ... The 4th Edition enlarg'd by the Author, with an accurate Map

London. Printed by Benj. Motte, for Tho. Home. 1711. 8vo, 18.2cm, 4th edition, [7],[1] (Blank),477 [i.e. 475], [1](Blank), [14] (Contents)p., complete but numerous pagination errors, including hiatus in numbering between pp. 384 and 387., one folding map, appropriately bound in modern half brown calf, gilt ruled raised bands, blind decorations in the panels, dark green calf label, gilt titles, marbled boards, some foxing on the map; and some on the preliminary leaves mainly towards the edges, expert repair on the map and a few edges, bookplates of G.R.G. Conway (on front pastedown) and Florencio Gavito (on front free endpaper), two renowned collectors of Spanish Americana, very good to fine copy, rare. (cgc). The 4th edition was issued twice, 1699 and this issue by Motte, in 1711. OCLC 56125 71 1 1; European-American 711/82: "Reissue of London, 1699 edn. ",' Sabin 263 02; JCB (3) 1:152; Hill 655. Gage was sent to Spain by his father in 1612 and while there, entered the Dominican order. In 1625 he left Spain and, to circumvent the order of the king of Spain preventing foreigners from entering the Spanish territories of the New World, had himself smuggled aboard a ship bound for the Philippines. He spent most of the next twelve years in Central America, at times living among the natives. He returned to England in 1641, at which time he became an Anglican priest. This work was published after his return to England; "it was the first to give the world a description of the Avast regions from which all foreigners had been jealously excluded by the Spanish authorities. It's purpose was to urge the mastery of Spanish territories in the New World by the English. "- (Hill) It was quickly translated into French, Dutch and German. An important work relating to the New World.