THOMAS GAGE'S TRAVELS IN THE NEW WORLD

379pp; Index. Green cloth with white stamping on spine. Contents clean, tight, textually unmarked. Former college library volume with customary labels and stamps. DJ blurb affixed to front paste-down. First published in 1648, first-hand account by priest of life in seventeenth-century Mexico and Central America. Thomas Gage was Dominican friar from Spain, who lived and traveled in Mexico, Guatemala and Central America between 1623 and 1637. "It is the only firsthand description of early Spanish America written by a non-Spaniard or one who was not a citizen of the Holy Roman Empire.".