Gage, Thomas. New mercenary travel description next New Spain. What he encounters there is strange and how he returns to Havana through the province of Nicaragua. 3 Bl., 471 S. With stung frontispiece. Title in red and black. 18 x 16 cm. Parchment d. C. (bending, flaking) with hs. Title and Spanish edges. Leipzig, Johann Herbordt, 1693. Sabin 26309. Palau 96.487. Mueller, Kaffee, 87. – First German edition of the detailed report on the Spanish Central and South America, according to the French of 1676. The English edition was published as early as 1648. In addition to the cities, the landscape and the administration of the Spanish conquerors, Gage also describes life habits, customs (including much about magic and witchcraft) and language of the natives. – Paper conditionedly browned, front inner joint open, few leaves a little loose in the binding, partly sticky and with few cracks and small flaws. Christoph von Neitzschitz. Seven-year-old and dangerous new-improved europe, asiat and African world view. 3 Bl., 320 pp., 12 Bl. With copper title, 2 folded copper engraved cards, 16 (1 folded) partly half-sided table copper. Nuremberg, Johann Hoffmann, 1674. - See Graesse IV, 656. ADB XXIII, 416f. Tobler 102. Kainbacher 287 (indeed, does not mention this Bautzen edition). - Third edition of his description of his journeys to the Levant, first published in 1666 by Baumann, from 1630 to 1637, here for the first time with the beautiful folding map of Mosesberg and the Katharinenberg on the Sinai.