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Nieuwe ende seer naeuwkeurige reyse door de Spaensche West-Indien van Thomas Gage; : met seer curieuse soo land-kaerten als historische figueren verciert ende met twee registers voorsien.

Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656, Quellenburg, Henrick van · 1700 · t'Amsterdam : By Willem de Coup, Willem Lamsvelt, Philip Verbeek en Johannes Lamsvelt, boekverkoopers · 6 pictures

A 1700 Dutch edition of Thomas Gage's travel account of the Spanish West Indies, printed in Amsterdam by Willem de Coup and partners for general readers, translated by Henrick van Quellenburg and illustrated with engraved maps and figures. The pictures are black-and-white copperplate engravings: ornamental strapwork friezes with scrolls and foliage, a night procession with torchbearers before a town, and a hilly landscape with a banner cartouche and a grazing animal, offering designers models for decorative borders, cartouches and atmospheric night scenes.

Missions · Chocolate · Chocolate drinks · Cocoa · Mayas · Indians of Central America · Pokonchi language · Pokomam language · Indian linguistics · Imprint 1700

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