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'Amsterdam. By W. de Coup, W. Lamsveld, Ph. Verbeek en J. Lamsveld. 1700. - 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. - Dutch translation first printed in Utrecht, 1682. - Primarily in Dutch but includes passages in Latin and Spanish. - Chapter VIII, p. 157-160, includes a discussion of chocolate and atolle beverages. - "Korte onderwysinge, om de Indiaansche taale, 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: *-** (*1 recto, *2 verso blank) ***² A-3T (3T4 verso blank) (Zz missigned Zy). - Includes index. - Woodcut printer's ornament on title page; head pieces; initials
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