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... Made English from the Dutch Copy...very much Corrected, from the Errours of the Original, by the Relations of some English Gentlemen, that then resided in those Parts. London: for Tho. Malthus 1684. 12mo, red morocco gilt, spine in six compartments, turn-ins gilt, g.e., by R. Bedford, extremities slightly rubbed, skilfully repaired 1-inch tear to title-leaf, 1/2-inch tear to fol. A2, neither affecting text, small rust hole to G12 affecting two letters, frontispiece and folding plate on new guards, tiny marginal repair to the plate. RARE ADAPTATION OF THE FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece portrait of Sir Henry Morgan and one folding engraved plate bearing reduced copies of the four portraits of pirates of the 1684 quarto editions. Wing E 3898; Sabin 23480 ("a small volume of great rarity"). | Christie's

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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... Made English from the Dutch Copy...very much Corrected, from the Errours of the Original, by the Relations of some English Gentlemen, that then resided in those Parts. London: for Tho. Malthus 1684. 12mo, red morocco gilt, spine in six compartments, turn-ins gilt, g.e., by R. Bedford, extremities slightly rubbed, skilfully repaired 1-inch tear to title-leaf, 1/2-inch tear to fol. A2, neither affecting text, small rust hole to G12 affecting two letters, frontispiece and folding plate on new guards, tiny marginal repair to the plate. RARE ADAPTATION OF THE FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece portrait of Sir Henry Morgan and one folding engraved plate bearing reduced copies of the four portraits of pirates of the 1684 quarto 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... Made English from the Dutch Copy...very much Corrected, from the Errours of the Original, by the Relations of some English Gentlemen, that then resided in those Parts. London: for Tho. Malthus 1684. 12mo, red morocco gilt, spine in six compartments, turn-ins gilt, g.e., by R. Bedford, extremities slightly rubbed, skilfully repaired 1-inch tear to title-leaf, 1/2-inch tear to fol. A2, neither affecting text, small rust hole to G12 affecting two letters, frontispiece and folding plate on new guards, tiny marginal repair to the plate. RARE ADAPTATION OF THE FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece portrait of Sir Henry Morgan and one folding engraved plate bearing reduced copies of the four portraits of pirates of the 1684 quarto editions. Wing E 3898; Sabin 23480 ("a small volume of great rarity").

In his Epistle to the Reader, the publisher explains that the aim of this abridgement is to rectify the pro-Spanish bias of the original Dutch edition, by presenting the mostly English buccaneers as "Instruments of the Divine Vengeance" against the Spaniards "for their inhumane usage of the poor and miserable Native Indians" (fol. A4v).