The history of the bucaniers of America : from their first original down to this time, written in several languages, and now collected into one volume ...

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)

Series:

Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1632:52.

Standardized Title:

Amerikaanse zeerovers. English. English

Language:

Dutch

English

French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Buccaneers.

Pirates.

West Indies--History--17th century.

West Indies.

History.

Physical Description:

5 unnumbered pages, 180, 180 pages, 12 unnumbered pages, 17 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Tho. Newborough ... John Nicholson ... and Benj. Tooke ..., 1699.

Contents:

(from t.p.) Containing

I. The exploits of Le Grand, Lolonois, Roche Brasiljano, Bat the Portuguese, Sir Henry Morgan, &c., written in Dutch by Jo. Esquemeling one of the bucaniers, and thence translated into Spanish

II. The dangerous voyage and bold attempts of Capt. Barth. Sharp, Watlin, Sawkins, Coxon, and others, in the South Sea, written by Basil Ringrose, Gent. who was a companion therein, and examin'd with the original journal

III. A journal into the South Sea by the freebooters of America from 1684 to 1689, written in French by the Sieur Raveneau de Lussan, never before in English

IV. A relation of a voyage of the Sieur de Montaubon, capt. of the freebooters in Guinea in the year 1695, &c.

Notes:

Running title: Bucaniers of America.

Wing "fifth" edition.

Marginal notes.

Includes index.

The III and IV parts lacking.

Imperfect: tightly bound and stained, with print show-through.

Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1985. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1632:52)

Cited in:

Wing E3899

OCLC:

18425952