Mar 10, 2020 - Sale 2533

Sale 2533 - Lot 179

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(PIRATES.) Dilworth, H.W. The History of the Bucaniers of America. 4 plates. [2], 144 pages. 12mo, contemporary sheep, worn, rear board detached; minor wear and foxing to contents. [London], 1758
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First edition of an early children's book, "published for the Improvement and Entertainment of the British Youth of both Sexes," and based upon the popular Exquemelin translation of the same name. The youth were thus entertained with graphic engravings such as "A Spaniard who had been hanged by his privities & his face singed at ye same time with combustibles" (illustrated). The book concludes with 4 pages of description of the Indians at Cabo Gracias a Dios on the present-day border between Nicaragua and Honduras. The author is elsewhere named as W.H. Dilworth. This copy has provenance from colonial Delaware, being inscribed "Samuel Lefferts, his book, bought att Noxontown the 30th of April 1759." Sabin 20182 lists only the 1759 second edition. 5 copies in ESTC, and only one other copy traced at auction since a Swann sale, 11 May 1978, lot 143.