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(PIRATES.) Exquemelin, Alexandre Olivier. Bucaniers of America; or, A True Account of the Most Remarkable AssaultsCommitted of Late Years upon the Coasts of the West Indies * Ringrose, Basil. Bucaniers of America, the Second Volume, Containing the Dangerous Voyage and Bold Attempts of Captain Bartholemew Sharp. 3 folding maps, 8 plates, numerous text illustrations. 4 parts in 2 volumes. 4to, attractive uniform full morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, the first volume taller; minimal soiling and wear to pages, catalogue description affixed to rear pastedown; bookplates on front pastedowns, and exhibit plate from the 1951 Festival of Britain Exhibition of Books on second front free endpaper. London: William Crooke, 1684-85
first english edition, and first edition of the scarce separately-issued Volume II. A tremendously influential source of pirate facts and legends. The great pirate Sir Henry Morgan, then retired from the privateering life in Jamaica, filed a libel suit against the publishers and won £200. Provenance: bookplates of the pirate historian Philip Gosse (1879-1959), presumably acquired after 1926, as this copy does not appear in his My Pirate Library published in that year. Church 689; European Americana 684/54 and 685/146; Hill 578 (first volume only); Palau 85733-4; Sabin 23479.
