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Editore: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017
ISBN 10: 1544275803ISBN 13: 9781544275802
Da: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Libro
Paperback. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. Williams, George Alfred (illustratore). Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.4.
Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017
ISBN 10: 1544275803ISBN 13: 9781544275802
Da: booksXpress, Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.
Libro
Soft Cover. Condizione: new. Williams, George Alfred (illustratore).
Editore: Rio Grande Press, 1992
ISBN 10: 0873801768ISBN 13: 9780873801768
Da: Jonathan Grobe Books, Deep River, IA, U.S.A.
Libro
Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Exlibrary with usual library markings. Cover Wear. Clear book repair tape on cover. Cover creases. ; 480 pages.
Editore: Rio Grande Pr Inc, Glorieta NM, 1992
ISBN 10: 0873801768ISBN 13: 9780873801768
Da: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
Libro
Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. Introduction by Andrew Lang. Large, sturdy softcover, glossy white wrappers with an antique illustration of sailship battle on most of front wrapper, a thin frame in red, a verbatim rerprint with modern language and spelling the only changes. 480 pages with some full page illustrations. Very light crease to front wrapper. Near Very Fine.
Editore: Rio Grande Press, 1992
ISBN 10: 0873801768ISBN 13: 9780873801768
Da: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
Libro
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. (Originally published, 1684) Very large, sturdy softcover, glossy white wrappers, 480 pages, some illustrations and simple maps. Light crease at top back tip. Ed. by William Swan Sallybrass. Near Fine.
Editore: London Printed for T. Evans 1771, 1771
Da: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
2 volumes. Fifth edition. The Rare 1771 Earliest Imprint. The more usual imprint dated 1774. Large 12mo, full contemporary calf, the spine panel renewed, raised bands, one red morocco label lettered in gilt. [4], 318; [2], 360, [12 Index] pp. A very good copy, internally quite fresh and clean. RARE EARLY PRINTING OF THE CORNERSTONE WORK OF ALL BOOKS ON PIRACY AND THE EXPLOITS OF THE BUCANIERS AND FREE-BOOTERS. "Perhaps no book in any language was ever the parent of so many imitations, and the source of so many fictions as this" (Sabin). Here are the exploits of Henry Morgan, who sacked Panama and absconded without dividing the booty--a transgression of the pirate's honor that Exquemelin could not applaud; here also the vicious Francis L'Ollonois, who tore out the hearts from his still-living victims and ate them; here are countless tortures and robberies, raids and rampages, as related by a reliable witness. For Exquemelin was himself a pirate: he had been sold into slavery in the West Indian plantations, beaten, tortured, and nearly starved to death, and "so I determined, not knowing how to get any living, to enter into the order of the pirates or robbers of the sea." His career lasted from 1666 until he saw the error of his ways and withdrew from the profession in 1672. 'Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin (also spelled Esquemeling, Exquemeling, or Oexmelin) (c. 1645 1707) was a French, Dutch or Flemish writer best known as the author of one of the most important sourcebooks of 17th-century piracy, first published in Dutch as De Americaensche Zee-Roovers, in Amsterdam, by Jan ten Hoorn, in 1678. Born about 1645, it is likely that Exquemelin was a native of Honfleur, France, who on his return from buccaneering settled in Holland, possibly because he was a Huguenot. In 1666 he was engaged by the French West India Company and went to Tortuga, where he worked as an indentured servant for three years. There he enlisted with the buccaneers, in particular with the band of Henry Morgan, whose confidante he was, probably as a barber-surgeon, and remained with them until 1674. Shortly afterwards he returned to Europe and settled in Amsterdam where he qualified professionally as a surgeon, his name appearing on the 1679 register of the Dutch Surgeons' Guild. However, he was later once again in the Caribbean as his name appears on the muster-roll as a surgeon in the attack on Cartagena in 1697.' wiki "Esquemeling's book gives a very reliable account of the principal exploits of the buccaneers down to their final disappearance, with the notable exception of their adventures in the South Sea, of which he makes no mention. But additional to this volume are the third and fourth part relating adventures and exploits of the bucaniers from 1685 to 1695 including a number in the South Sea by Sieur Ravenau de Lussan and the Sieur de Montauban. The BUCANIERS OF AMERICA is the foundation of any pirate collection, an important part of any collection of voyages, and a seminal piece of Americana.
Editore: William Crooke, London, 1685
Da: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Condizione: Very good. First edition in English of Exquemelin's illustrated history of famous pirates, the central primary source on the subject during its most famous era, with the continuation by Ringrose. Once the surgeon to Captain Henry Morgan, Exquemelin offers first-hand accounts of buccaneering in the West Indies in the late-seventeenth century; his is one of the few works of documentary evidence for their exploits. It formed the mythology around many of the now-infamous pirates - Morgan himself successfully sued the author for defamation. Ringrose's work brings the history of pirates up to date with the travels of Captain Cook and other voyagers to the South Sea. The magnificent engravings depict battle scenes, maps of the Caribbean, and portraits of major leaders like Morgan. First published in Dutch in 1678, it is rare complete in both volumes with all maps and plates. Two quarto volumes. 9'' x 6.75''. Nineteenth-century full calf rebacked with original brown morocco spine labels laid down, Cambridge-style boards ruled and corner-stamped in gilt, raised bands, spine ornamented in gilt, gilt dentelles. Navy blue coated endpapers, all edges gilt. 6 full-page and 2 double-page engravings of pirates and scenes of piracy, 2 folding maps and 1 double-page map, and 14 full-page engraved maps/plans. Prefaces at front and tables (indices) at rear of both volumes, 1 page of ads at end of part II, 7 pages of bookseller ads at rear of volume II. Collates according to Sabin 23479. Bookplates from the Fox Pointe collection on front pastedowns. Marginal paper repairs to a few leaves of volume I (including title page and Henry Morgan plate), small paper repair to large folding map in volume II.