(PIRATES) John Cockburn A Faithful Account of the Distresses

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(PIRATES.) John Cockburn. A Faithful Account of the Distresses and Adventures of . . . Englishmen; who were taken Prisoners by a Spanish Pyrate. Folding engraved map. viii, 349, [3] pages, including final ad leaf. 8vo, contemporary calf, tastefully rebacked; minor marginal soiling on a few leaves, contents otherwise generally quite clean; bookplate of Thomas Percival, Esquire on front pastedown. London, 1740

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Second edition. Captured by pirates in the Caribbean and left on an uninhabited island, Cockburn and his fellow seamen reached the Mexican mainland and trekked across Central America to Panama, reaching England in 1732. "An authentic account of adventures so extraordinary that it was regarded as little more than a romance by contemporaries"--Hill 324 (re 1735 first edition). Appended with a separate title page is "The Travels of Mr. Nicholas Whithington, a Factor in the East-Indies." European Americana 740/63; Sabin 14097.