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HACKE, Captain WILLIAM, editor. A collection of Original Voyages...I. Captain Cowley's Voyage Round the Globe. II. Captain Sharp's Journey over the Isthmus of Darien...III. Capt. Wood's Voyage thro' the Streights of Magellan. IV. Mr. Roberts's Adventures among the Corsairs of the Levant...London: Printed for James Knapton 1699. 8vo, contemporary speckled paneled calf, sprinkled red edges, rebacked, morocco spine label, front cover detached, top of spine and corners worn. FIRST EDITION, 6 engraved maps and plans (5 folding), 3 pages of publisher's advertisements at rear.
"Source material of great importance for the history of the buccaneers who cruised off the American coast at the end of the 17th century. Hacke had been one of the buccaneers himself, and later made a living from selling manuscript atlases copies from the derroteros plundered from Spanish vessels on various of the buccaneering voyages"--Quaritch catalogue 1006 (1980), item 35; "Cowley...sailed further south than any of his predecessors, and he named some of the Galapagos Islands. Bartholomew Sharp, the elected leader of the buccaneers, plundered and looted all along the west coast of South America...John Wood served on Narbrough's expedition to the west coast of South America and gave an account of the Patagonians"--Hill, pp. 130-131; Sabin 29473; Wing H 168.
"Source material of great importance for the history of the buccaneers who cruised off the American coast at the end of the 17th century. Hacke had been one of the buccaneers himself, and later made a living from selling manuscript atlases copies from the derroteros plundered from Spanish vessels on various of the buccaneering voyages"--Quaritch catalogue 1006 (1980), item 35; "Cowley...sailed further south than any of his predecessors, and he named some of the Galapagos Islands. Bartholomew Sharp, the elected leader of the buccaneers, plundered and looted all along the west coast of South America...John Wood served on Narbrough's expedition to the west coast of South America and gave an account of the Patagonians"--Hill, pp. 130-131; Sabin 29473; Wing H 168.