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EXQUEMELIN, Alexandre Olivier (ca 1645-1707). Bucaniers of America: Or, a true Account of the most remarkable Assaults Committed of late years upon the Coasts of the West Indies, By the Bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga, both English and French. London: for William Crooke, 1684. -- Bucaniers of America. The Second Volume. London: Crooke, 1685.
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EXQUEMELIN, Alexandre Olivier (ca 1645-1707). Bucaniers of America: Or, a true Account of the most remarkable Assaults Committed of late years upon the Coasts of the West Indies, By the Bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga, both English and French. London: for William Crooke, 1684. -- Bucaniers of America. The Second Volume. London: Crooke, 1685.
2 volumes in one, 4o (228 x 175 mm). Three engraved maps (one a large folding "Description of the South Sea & Coasts of America"), 4 views (2 folding), 4 portraits of Rock Brasiliano, Batholomew Portugues, Sir Henry Morgan, and Francis Lolonais, numerous woodcuts and maps in text. (Title-page of volume one repaired along top edge with small section of border supplied in manuscript, a few leaves with minor marginal repairs.) 19th-century tan calf gilt, edges gilt, by F. Bedford (some light rubbing, minor wear at spine ends). Provenance: The Library at Carolands (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of this classic account of the pirates, then at the apogee of their power and menace: "the classic of buccaneering books" (Hill). First issued in Dutch in 1678, this English translation was based on a Spanish edition of 1681. Sir Henry Morgan, one of the swashbuckling subjects, honored with a portrait and a view of his destruction of the Spanish fleet, sued the publisher for libel and won a judgment. Alden & Landis 684/54; Borba de Moraes I:299; Church 689; Field 503; Gosse Pirates p.125; Hill 578; JCB 1675-1700, pp.131-2; Palau 85733; Sabin 23479; Wing E-3894.
2 volumes in one, 4o (228 x 175 mm). Three engraved maps (one a large folding "Description of the South Sea & Coasts of America"), 4 views (2 folding), 4 portraits of Rock Brasiliano, Batholomew Portugues, Sir Henry Morgan, and Francis Lolonais, numerous woodcuts and maps in text. (Title-page of volume one repaired along top edge with small section of border supplied in manuscript, a few leaves with minor marginal repairs.) 19th-century tan calf gilt, edges gilt, by F. Bedford (some light rubbing, minor wear at spine ends). Provenance: The Library at Carolands (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of this classic account of the pirates, then at the apogee of their power and menace: "the classic of buccaneering books" (Hill). First issued in Dutch in 1678, this English translation was based on a Spanish edition of 1681. Sir Henry Morgan, one of the swashbuckling subjects, honored with a portrait and a view of his destruction of the Spanish fleet, sued the publisher for libel and won a judgment. Alden & Landis 684/54; Borba de Moraes I:299; Church 689; Field 503; Gosse Pirates p.125; Hill 578; JCB 1675-1700, pp.131-2; Palau 85733; Sabin 23479; Wing E-3894.
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