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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.
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. 4 o (234 x 178 mm). One engraved double-page map, 4 views (2 double-page), and 4 portraits of Rock Brasiliano, Batholomew Portugues, Sir Henry Morgan, Francis Lolonais. Contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance : H. Poulett (early inscription). 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 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 judgement. This work is sometimes bound with the very rare fourth part (Ringrose) published as a second volume 1685, not present here. 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.