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EXQUEMELIN, Alexandre Olivier. Bucaniers of America: Or, a true Account of the Most remarkable Assaults Committed of late years upon the Coasts of the West-Indies. London: Printed for William Crooke, 1684. 3 parts bound in 1, small 4o (216 x 170 mm). Three (of four) engraved portraits (lacking portrait of Brasiliano), two engraved plates (one double-page) and double-page map of Panama (blank preliminaries missing, marginal loss title along top edge and gutter, minor loss in margins to a few additional pages), good, clean impressions of the plates. Contemporary calf (loss at tail, joints cracked through but cords holding). Second English edition, published the same year as the first, but with additional material on South Sea voyages. Sabin 23479; Hill p.99.
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The missing plate is supplied from another copy. The lot will be sold with two additional engraved plates.