Lot 105
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EXQUEMELIN, ALEXANDRE OLIVIER. The History of the Bucaniers: Being an Impartial Relation Of all the Battels, Sieges, and other most Eminent Assaults committed for several years upon the Coasts of the West-Indies By the Pirates of Jamaica and Tortuga. London: for Tho. Malthus 1684. 3 parts in one vol., 12mo, contemporary speckled calf, rubbed, leather of spine cracking, endpapers detaching, some soiling, a few corners creased, 1-inch tear to fol. C4 with no text loss, small printing flaw to I2r and I12r. RARE ABRIDGEMENT OF THE FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece portrait of Sir Henry Morgan and one folding engraved plate bearing reduced copies of the 4 portraits of pirates of the 4to 1684 editions. Wing E 3898; Sabin 23480 ("a small volume of great rarity").

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EXQUEMELIN, ALEXANDRE OLIVIER. The History of the Bucaniers: Being an Impartial Relation Of all the Battels, Sieges, and other most Eminent Assaults committed for several years upon the Coasts of the West-Indies By the Pirates of Jamaica and Tortuga. London: for Tho. Malthus 1684. 3 parts in one vol., 12mo, contemporary speckled calf, rubbed, leather of spine cracking, endpapers detaching, some soiling, a few corners creased, 1-inch tear to fol. C4 with no text loss, small printing flaw to I2r and I12r. RARE ABRIDGEMENT OF THE FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece portrait of Sir Henry Morgan and one folding engraved plate bearing reduced copies of the 4 portraits of pirates of the 4to 1684 editions. Wing E 3898; Sabin 23480 ("a small volume of great rarity").

Provenance: Thomas Cary, eighteenth-century signature on title-page; bookplate of Jacob Lyell.