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The scourge of the Indies, buccaneers, corsairs, & filibusters
- Title
- The scourge of the Indies, buccaneers, corsairs, & filibusters, from original texts and contemporary engravings by Mavrice Besson.
- Author
- Besson, Maurice, 1885-
- Publication
- New York, Random House, 1929.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Thornton, Everard.
- Description
- 2 p. ¡., ix-xii, 330, [1] p., 1 ¡. incl. illus. (incl. ports., plans, facsims.), plates. col. plates, maps.; 29 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Frères de la coste, filibusters & corsaires. English
- Alternative Title
- Frères de la coste, filibusters & corsaires.
- Subjects
- Note
- "Translated by Everard Thornton."
- Printed in Bruxelles.
- French edition published under title: Les "Frères de la coste", fillbvaters & coranires ... Paris, 1928.
- "This edition is limited to 1040 copies for the United States of America."
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: (p. 329-[331]).
- Reproduction (note)
- Photocopy.
- Contents
- Introduction.--The origins of the Brothers of the coast.--The "custom of the coast".--Some portraits of great filibusters: Montbars the Exterminator and Peter Legrand of Dieppe. Montauban of Bordeanx (women filibusters and some others). The Chevalier de Grammont. Nau l'Olonnais. Memoirs of Ravenau de Lussan. Jean-Baptiste Ducasse, governor of Saint Domingo. Jacques Cassard. Dulaïen, François Thurot. Jean d'Albarade.
- Call Number
- Sc 972.9-B (Besson, M. Scourge of the Indies)
- LCCN
- 30031899
- OCLC
- 1646226
- NYPGR1646226-B
- Author
- Besson, Maurice, 1885-
- Title
- The scourge of the Indies, buccaneers, corsairs, & filibusters, from original texts and contemporary engravings by Mavrice Besson.
- Imprint
- New York, Random House, 1929.
- Bibliography
- Bibliography: (p. 329-[331]).
- Reproduction
- Photocopy. Bridgeport, Mass. : Bridgeport National Bindery, Inc. for The New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 2006.
- Added Author
- Thornton, Everard.
- Research Call Number
- Sc 972.9-B (Besson, M. Scourge of the Indies)