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GAGE, THOMAS. 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 for Humphrey Blunden and Thomas Williams 1648. Folio, contemporary sheep, head and foot of spine chipped, corners worn, lower cover scuffed and with a little worming to leather, small tear to G2 . FIRST EDITION, title within type ornament border, other ornaments, woodcut initials. Gage spent twelve years travelling in Spanish Central America between 1625 and 1637. The publication of this book "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" -- D.N.B.; Wing G 109; Sabin 26298; Alden 648/68. Provenance : The Earl of Westmoreland, 1856., pen-and-ink bookplate; Charles Lilburn, bookplate.