Item Description: | Added, engraved title page reads: Nieuwe en seer nauwkeurige reijse door de Spaensche Westindien van Thomas Gage met verscheijde curieuse plaeten voorsien overgeset door H.V.Q. t.'Utrecht bij Iohannes Ribbius. A[nn]o 1682. - Dedication, p. [5-12], 1st count, signed: H. V. Quellenburgh. - Translation, by Henrick van Quellenburg, of: The English-American his travail by sea and land: or, A new survey of the West-India's [sic], first printed London, 1648. - Chapter VIII, p. 157-160, includes a discussion of chocolate and atolle beverages. - "Korte onderwysinge, om de Indiaensche taele, welcke men Poconchi ofte Pocoman noemt, te leeren, werdende deselve in ende omtrent Guatimala gesproocken, gelijck ook in eenige gedeelten van de Honduras": p. [439]-450. - Signatures: * (*5, *6 missigned *4, *5) ** A-3S 3T (-3T4). - Includes index. - Woodcut printer's ornament on title page; head pieces; initials
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