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The history of the bucaniers: being an impartial relation of all the battels, sieges, and other most eminent assaults committed for several years upon the coasts of the West-Indies by the pirates of Jamaica and Tortuga. Both English, & other nations. More especially the unparallel'd atchievements of Sir H.M.

Title
The history of the bucaniers: being an impartial relation of all the battels, sieges, and other most eminent assaults committed for several years upon the coasts of the West-Indies by the pirates of Jamaica and Tortuga. Both English, & other nations. More especially the unparallel'd atchievements of Sir H.M. Made English from the Dutch copy: written by J. Esquemeling, one of the bucaniers, very much corrected, from the errours of the original, by the relations of some English gentlemen, that then resided in those parts ...
Author
Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)
Publication
London, Printed for T. Malthus, 1684.

Details

Additional Authors
  • Morgan, Henry, Sir, 1635?-1688.
  • L'Olonnais, 1630-1671.
Description
12 p. l., 192 p.; 16 cm.
Subjects
Note
  • "The publisher to the reader," 5 p. l., is followed by dedicatory verses "To the honourable Sir Henry Morgan", signed "A.B.," 1 p. l. The publisher says that "though he knew both the Dutch original and the Spanish translation contained most excellent remarks ... he thought not fit to prosecute his design of having them rendred into the English tongue, before that he had had them stand the test of such who had resided many years in those parts, and, as it were, been present at, and eye-witnesses of those pyratical expeditions, and so were fully acquainted with the interests and affairs of our buccaniers; these gentlemen were pleased to correct, purge and reform it of many abuses and mistakes, wherewith this account was sullied by self-interessed [!] pens ... You have it here prun'd of all those tautologies wherewith the other accounts are loaded."
Indexed In (note)
  • Sabin
Call Number
*KC 1684 (Exquemelin, A. O. History of the bucaniers)
LCCN
02017958
OCLC
21430853
Author
Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)
Title
The history of the bucaniers: being an impartial relation of all the battels, sieges, and other most eminent assaults committed for several years upon the coasts of the West-Indies by the pirates of Jamaica and Tortuga. Both English, & other nations. More especially the unparallel'd atchievements of Sir H.M. Made English from the Dutch copy: written by J. Esquemeling, one of the bucaniers, very much corrected, from the errours of the original, by the relations of some English gentlemen, that then resided in those parts ...
Imprint
London, Printed for T. Malthus, 1684.
Indexed In:
Sabin 23480
Local Note
Lenox Collection.
Five ports. on 2 pl. engraved by F.H. van Hove, inserted.
Added Author
Morgan, Henry, Sir, 1635?-1688.
L'Olonnais, 1630-1671.
Research Call Number
*KC 1684 (Exquemelin, A. O. History of the bucaniers)
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