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[DEFOE, Daniel]. JOHNSON, Charles. A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Famous Pyrates...London: for T. Woodward, 1726. 2 vols. 8o (190 x 115 mm.) 3 plates including portraits of Edward Teach ("Blackbeard"), Ann Bonny and Mary Read, the notorious female pirates and a folding plate of Captain Roberts and his ships, folding frontispiece map in second volume depicting Maryland to Brazil, (remaining map lacking, initial gathering loose). Contemporary calf (rebacked, richly gilt). Fourth edition and the first to include the map. -- Another copy. (Lacks 1 plate and two maps). Moore 458. (4)