Pirates.- Exquemelin (Alexandre Olivier) Bucaniers of America: Or, a True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of late Years upon the Coasts of the West-Indies, by the Bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga, 2 vol. (4 parts) in 1, vol.1 second edition, vol.2 first edition, 8 engraved plates (2 folding) and 3 folding maps, 14 engraved maps in the text, vol.1 D2 with horizontal tear neatly repaired, neatly repaired tear to large folding map of South America, some occasional light foxing or browning, mostly marginal, contemporary calf, rebacked, [Sabin 23479; Wing E3896 & E3897], 4to, for William Crooke, 1684-85.
⁂ One of the most popular and widely imitated of the accounts of piracy in the Americas. The lives of the buccaneers included in the work were liberally embellished to such an extent that Captain Morgan, one of the most notorious of those featured, successfully sued for slander and was awarded £200.