EXQUEMELIN, Alexandre Olivier (c.1645-1707). Histoire des Avanturiers Flibustiers qui se sont signalez dans les Indes, contenant ce qu'ils ont fait de remarquable. Avec la Vie, les Moeurs & les Coutumes des Boucaniers & des Habitans de S. Dominique &...
EXQUEMELIN, Alexandre Olivier (c.1645-1707). Histoire des Avanturiers Flibustiers qui se sont signalez dans les Indes, contenant ce qu'ils ont fait de remarquable. Avec la Vie, les Moeurs & les Coutumes des Boucaniers & des Habitans de S. Dominique & de la Tortue… Nouvelle Edition corrigée & augmentée de l'Histoire des Pirates Anglois. Trévoux: Par la Compagnie, 1744.
Rare French edition, the first to appear with the addition of the History of the English pirates, of Exquemelin's account of pirates’ deeds and customs, including a thorough description of the Caribbean area. The French edition (it was first published in Dutch in Amsterdam in 1678), by Thomas de Frontigniers, was also directly based on the original manuscript. A ship's surgeon in the service of pirates, the chemist Exquemelin not only witnessed but also took part in several notorious pirate expeditions, such as that of the English buccaneer Henry Morgan (‘John’ in the book) including his raid on Maracaibo in 1669, and his 1670 attack on Panama. The additional text included in the fourth volume, the French version of an account of English pirates ‘by Captain Charles Johnson’, had appeared about twenty years earlier; it is the primary source of information on the piratesses Mary Read and Anne Bonny, and is believed by some to have been authored by Daniel Defoe. Sabin 23477; Palau 85746; JCB (1), III, 780; Alden-Landis 744/92.
4 volumes, 12mo (166 x 92mm). Engraved frontispiece, 3 folded engraved plates and 4 folded engraved maps (creases to the folded plates, but a fine, crisp copy). Contemporary mottled calf, panelled spines decorated in gilt with contrasting gilt lettering-pieces, all edges sprinkled red, preserving green silk bookmarks. Provenance: Mabille-Duchêne estate (Baugé-en-Anjou, early 19th-c. typed paper strips to front free end-papers).
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EXQUEMELIN, Alexandre Olivier (c.1645-1707). Histoire des Avanturiers Flibustiers qui se sont signalez dans les Indes, contenant ce qu'ils ont fait de remarquable. Avec la Vie, les Moeurs & les Coutumes des Boucaniers & des Habitans de S. Dominique & de la Tortue… Nouvelle Edition corrigée & augmentée de l'Histoire des Pirates Anglois. Trévoux: Par la Compagnie, 1744.
Rare French edition, the first to appear with the addition of the History of the English pirates, of Exquemelin's account of pirates’ deeds and customs, including a thorough description of the Caribbean area. The French edition (it was first published in Dutch in Amsterdam in 1678), by Thomas de Frontigniers, was also directly based on the original manuscript. A ship's surgeon in the service of pirates, the chemist Exquemelin not only witnessed but also took part in several notorious pirate expeditions, such as that of the English buccaneer Henry Morgan (‘John’ in the book) including his raid on Maracaibo in 1669, and his 1670 attack on Panama. The additional text included in the fourth volume, the French version of an account of English pirates ‘by Captain Charles Johnson’, had appeared about twenty years earlier; it is the primary source of information on the piratesses Mary Read and Anne Bonny, and is believed by some to have been authored by Daniel Defoe. Sabin 23477; Palau 85746; JCB (1), III, 780; Alden-Landis 744/92.
4 volumes, 12mo (166 x 92mm). Engraved frontispiece, 3 folded engraved plates and 4 folded engraved maps (creases to the folded plates, but a fine, crisp copy). Contemporary mottled calf, panelled spines decorated in gilt with contrasting gilt lettering-pieces, all edges sprinkled red, preserving green silk bookmarks. Provenance: Mabille-Duchêne estate (Baugé-en-Anjou, early 19th-c. typed paper strips to front free end-papers).
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