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The buccaneers of America, a true account of the most remarkable assaults committed of late years upon the coasts of the West Indies by the buccaneers of Jamaica and Tortuga (both English and French) wherein are contained more especially the unparalleled exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, our English Jamaican hero, who sacked Porto Bello, burnt Panama, etc. By John Esquemeling, one of the Buccaneers who was present at those tragedies. Now faithfully rendered into English. With facsimiles of all the original engravings, etc.

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The buccaneers of America, a true account of the most remarkable assaults committed of late years upon the coasts of the West Indies by the buccaneers of Jamaica and Tortuga (both English and French) wherein are contained more especially the unparalleled exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, our English Jamaican hero, who sacked Porto Bello, burnt Panama, etc. By John Esquemeling, one of the Buccaneers who was present at those tragedies. Now faithfully rendered into English. With facsimiles of all the original engravings, etc.
Author
Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)
Publication
London, G. Allen & company, ltd.; New York, The Macmillan company, 1911.

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  • Powell, Henry.
  • Ringrose, Basil, -1686.
Description
2 p. l., XXXV, 506 p. front., illus., plates., ports., maps. (1 fold); 23 cm.
Subject
  • Buccaneers
  • Pirates
  • Spanish Main
  • West Indies > History
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • "Dutch edition...Amsterdam, 1678, Spanish edition...1682...English edition...1684-85...Ed. by H. Powell...1893; re-issued 1898, 1900, 1910, 1911."--Verso of t.-p.
  • Part IV, containing the dangerous voyage and bold assaults of Captain Bartholomew Sharp and others, performed in the South Sea, for the space of two years, etc. [By Basil Ringrose] p. 273-502.
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  • committed to retain
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^^^12028245^
OCLC
1698030
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library