Exquemelin, Alexandre Olivier BUCANIERS OF AMERICA [ BOUND WITH: BUCANIERS OF AMERICA. THE SECOND VOLUME. CONTAINING THE DANGEROUS VOYAGE AND BOLD ATTEMPTS OF CAPTAIN BARTHOLOMEW SHARP, AND OTHERS... WRITTEN BY MR. BASIL RINGROSE]. LONDON: WILLIAM CROOKE, 1684-1685 FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of volume 1, FIRST EDITION of volume 2, 2 volumes in one, 4to (220 x 160mm.), (vol.1) [vi], 116, 152, 124, [xii] pp.; (vol.2) [viii], 212, [xxii] pp., 11 engraved maps and plates, red morocco by Riviere, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles, gilt edges A highly popular account of the English and French pirates who harassed the West Indies. "This translation was not from the original Dutch but from the Spanish translation, which emphasized the worst aspects of the English buccaneers more strongly than the original text. When this translation appeared, several former buccaneers brought libel suits... Sir Henry Morgan was awarded £200 and a public apology" (Hill).
Exquemelin, Alexandre Olivier BUCANIERS OF AMERICA [ BOUND WITH: BUCANIERS OF AMERICA. THE SECOND VOLUME. CONTAINING THE DANGEROUS VOYAGE AND BOLD ATTEMPTS OF CAPTAIN BARTHOLOMEW SHARP, AND OTHERS... WRITTEN BY MR. BASIL RINGROSE]. LONDON: WILLIAM CROOKE, 1684-1685 FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of volume 1, FIRST EDITION of volume 2, 2 volumes in one, 4to (220 x 160mm.), (vol.1) [vi], 116, 152, 124, [xii] pp.; (vol.2) [viii], 212, [xxii] pp., 11 engraved maps and plates, red morocco by Riviere, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles, gilt edges A highly popular account of the English and French pirates who harassed the West Indies. "This translation was not from the original Dutch but from the Spanish translation, which emphasized the worst aspects of the English buccaneers more strongly than the original text. When this translation appeared, several former buccaneers brought libel suits... Sir Henry Morgan was awarded £200 and a public apology" (Hill).
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