Pirates.- Exquemelin (Alexandre Olivier 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, 3 parts in 1, second edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 portraits, a map of Panama and 4 plates (2 folding), 1 portrait with small ink stains, some staining and spotting, lightly browned, bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst, modern calf-backed marbled boards, small 4to, printed for William Crooke at the Green Dragon without Temple Bar, 1684. ⁂ One of the most popular and widely imitated of the accounts of piracy in the Americas. The lives of the buccaneers included in the work were liberally embellished to such an extent that Captain Morgan, one of the most notorious of those featured, successfully sued for slander and was awarded £200.
Pirates.- Exquemelin (Alexandre Olivier 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, 3 parts in 1, second edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 portraits, a map of Panama and 4 plates (2 folding), 1 portrait with small ink stains, some staining and spotting, lightly browned, bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst, modern calf-backed marbled boards, small 4to, printed for William Crooke at the Green Dragon without Temple Bar, 1684. ⁂ One of the most popular and widely imitated of the accounts of piracy in the Americas. The lives of the buccaneers included in the work were liberally embellished to such an extent that Captain Morgan, one of the most notorious of those featured, successfully sued for slander and was awarded £200.
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