99 B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s “The Classic Of Buccaneering Books” 128. EXQUEMELIN, Alexandre Olivier, also known as ESQUEMELING, John. The History of the Bucaniers of America. BOUND WITH: DE LUSSAN, Raveneau. A Journal of aVoyageMade into the SouthSea, by theBucaniers or Freebooters of America. London, 1699; 1698. Two volumes bound in one. Thick octavo, contemporary full paneled brown calf. $5800. Early edition in English of this classic account of the buccaneers, complete with Basil Ringrose’s continuation, illustrated with 25 engraved portraits, illustrations and maps (15 folding). Bound with a first edition in English of De Lussan’s account of pirates in the South Sea. “Perhaps no book in any language was ever the parent of so many imitations, and the source of so many fictions as this” (Sabin). “It has well been called the classic of buccaneering books” (Cox). Exquemelin’s account originally appeared in Dutch in 1678, translated into Spanish in 1681, and rendered into English from the Spanish for the first time in 1684; Ringrose’s continuation first appeared in 1685. Raveneau de Lussan’s Journal du Voyage first appeared in French in 1690. Sabin 23483; 67986. Early owner ink signature to title page. Bookseller’s small label on rear pastedown. Light foxing to a few interior pages; a few folding plates with light edge-wear or creasing, light expert restoration to extremities of contemporary calf boards. A very good, complete copy.
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