17th Sep, 2024 10:00
The September Auctions 2024
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Gage (Thomas) A New Survey of the West-Indies
Gage (Thomas) A New Survey of the West-Indies being a Journal of Three thousand and Three hundred Miles within the main Land of America: ... the only Protestant that was ever known to have travel'd those Parts. Setting forth his voyage from Spain to S. John de Ulhua, and thence of Xalapa, Tlaxcalla, the City of Angels, and Mexico: With a Description of that great City... Likewise His Journey thence through Guaxaca, Chiapa, Guatemala, Vera Paz, &c. with his abode XII years about Guatemala, His wonderful Conversion and Calling to his Native Country: With his Return through Nicaragua and Costa Rica, to Nicoya, Panama, Porto bello, Cartagena and Havana... with a Grammar, or some few Rudiments of the Indian Tongue, called Poconchi or Pocoman, London: M. Clark for J. Nicolson and T. Newborough, 1699, 8vo, Fourth edition, rebound 18th century half calf with red title block, bookplate for Lord Sandys, fold out map of Mexico by Lamb
Provenance:Ombersley Court, Worcestershire
Chorley’s Auctioneers is to offer The Ombersley Court Library collected by the English aristocratic family of Sandys across five centuries.
Proceeds of the sale will will be donated to the Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust (Charity 1127871).
Hartlebury Castle is a historic Worcestershire estate first given to Bishop Aelhun in 855AD. Home of the Bishops of Worcester until 2007. it has a longstanding connection with the Sandys family throughout its history.
Sold for £700
Gage (Thomas) A New Survey of the West-Indies being a Journal of Three thousand and Three hundred Miles within the main Land of America: ... the only Protestant that was ever known to have travel'd those Parts. Setting forth his voyage from Spain to S. John de Ulhua, and thence of Xalapa, Tlaxcalla, the City of Angels, and Mexico: With a Description of that great City... Likewise His Journey thence through Guaxaca, Chiapa, Guatemala, Vera Paz, &c. with his abode XII years about Guatemala, His wonderful Conversion and Calling to his Native Country: With his Return through Nicaragua and Costa Rica, to Nicoya, Panama, Porto bello, Cartagena and Havana... with a Grammar, or some few Rudiments of the Indian Tongue, called Poconchi or Pocoman, London: M. Clark for J. Nicolson and T. Newborough, 1699, 8vo, Fourth edition, rebound 18th century half calf with red title block, bookplate for Lord Sandys, fold out map of Mexico by Lamb
Ombersley Court, Worcestershire
THE OMBERSLEY COURT LIBRARY
Chorley’s Auctioneers is to offer The Ombersley Court Library collected by the English aristocratic family of Sandys across five centuries.
Proceeds of the sale will will be donated to the Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust (Charity 1127871).
Hartlebury Castle is a historic Worcestershire estate first given to Bishop Aelhun in 855AD. Home of the Bishops of Worcester until 2007. it has a longstanding connection with the Sandys family throughout its history.
Marbled board rubbed and worn, hinges cracked, pastedowns and endapers with browned edges, front endpapers loose or detached, pages clean excepting a few ink smudges.
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Auction: The September Auctions 2024, 17th Sep, 2024
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