Nouvelle relation, contenant les voyages de Thomas Gage dans la Nouvelle Espagne, ses diverses avantures; & son retour par la province de Nicaragua, jusques à la Havane; avec la description de la vil

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Author: Thomas Gage (c1597-1656) Year: 1695 Publisher: Paul Marret Place: Amsterdam Description: 4 parts in 2 volumes. [24]+200+[1]-178 pages with frontispiece, five folding plates and three folding maps. [14]+318 pages with frontispiece, seven folding plates and one folding map. Duodecimo. 6" x 3 3/4") bound in original leather with five raised spine bands in black and red spine labels in gilt lettering. Later edition in French (first published in Paris, 1676, but with out the maps and plates; the work first published in English in London, 1648) Thomas Gage was an English Dominican friar, best known for his travel writing on New Spain and Central America during a sojourn there of over a decade. He closely observes colonial society and culture. On his return to England in 1637 he converted to Anglicanism. The route led through Mexico, where Gage decided to remain and for a time taught Latin in the convent school. By Gage's own account, in Mexico City he heard from a friar who had run away from his duties in the Philippines that the Dominican superiors there were cruel and harsh and the friars corrupt and worldly. In order to escape onward posting to the Philippines, Gage and three other friars escaped from Mexico for Guatemala. Here he was accepted by the Dominicans as a useful addition to their manpower. He spent two or three years in the priory in Santiago de los Caballeros, where he seems to have liked the opportunity for study but began to have religious doubts and was le

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