[PIRACY -- NARRATIVES]. The Last Words and Dying Confession of the Three Pirates, who were executed this day, (May 9th, 1800.) Philadelphia: Folwell's Press, 1800. 8o. Original woodcut pictorial wrappers, a striking image of three bodies on the gallows, three coffins at the ready and a skull and bones at the head (uncut, edges worn). FIRST EDITION printing the final letters of the pirates La Croix, Berrouse and Baker, convicted of the horrid murders on board the Schooner Eliza (see lot 206). To the end Berrouse claimed that he was enlisted in the French military and therefore his piracy was a justified attempt to seize a vessel for the Republic. Not in OCLC. With a later reprint of the same.