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The adventures of a pirate View picture(s) 1 BAWIER, Franz Urban. Des See-Capitains Franz Urban Bawiers merckwürdige Reisen und Begebenheiten seine Kriegsdienste zu Lande Seefahrten nach Ost- und Westindien und endliche Wohlfarth von ihm selbst beschrieben. Frankfurt a.M. and Leipzig, Georg Peter Monath, 1752. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine ribbed and gilt with yellow title label, marbled boards and edges. With 4 (of 5) full-page engraved plates. [8], 408 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [Central]  America [South]  Literature  Piracy  Shipwrecks  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Attempt to supress the pirates in the East Indies View picture(s) 2 DOWNING, Clement. A compendious history of the Indian wars; with an account of the rise, progress, strength, and forces of Angria the Pyrate... [Drop-title on page 1]: A succinct history of the Indian wars:... London, for T. Cooper, 1737. 12mo. Contemporary calf, re-backed. IV, 238, [2 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Piracy  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Pirates of the Caribbean. A 17th-century pirate's own account View picture(s) 3 EXQUEMELIN (ESQUEMELIN), Alexandre Olivier. Historie der Boecaniers, of Vrybuyters van America. Amsterdam, Nicolaas ten Hoorn, 1700. 3 parts (paginated as 2) in 1 volume. 4to. Eighteenth-century half vellum, later marbled sides. With an engraved, illustrated title-page, letterpress title-page with woodcut publisher's device, a folding engraved map of South and Central America, and 7 engraved illustration plates (1 folding). Also with 4 decorative woodcut initials. (8), 219, (1), 136, (6) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [Caribbean Islands]  Discovery & Exploration  Piracy  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The lifes and adventures of the pirates of the Caribbean View picture(s) 4 EXQUEMELIN, Alexandre Olivier (or: OEXMELIN). Histoire des avanturiers qui se sont signalez dans les Indes, contenant ce qu'ils ont fait de plus remarquable depuis vingt années. Avec la vie, les moeurs, les coûtumes des habitans de Saint Domingue & de la Tortuë, & une description exacte de ces lieux. Où l'on voit l'établissement d'une chambre des comptes dans les Indes, & un etat, tiré de cette chambre, des offices tant ecclesiastiques que seculiers, où le roy d'Espagne pourvoit, les revenus qu'il tire de l'Amerique, & ce que les plus grands princes de l'Europe y possedent. Paris, Jacques Le Febvre, 1688. 2 vols. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines ribbed and richly gilt with red title-labels, red mottled edges. With richly designed and engraved allegorical frontispiece, 3 folding engraved maps, 1 engraving in the text, and 3 full-page engraved plates, 1 showing a buccaneer smoking a pipe and standing with a rifle under a large palm tree with some dogs at his feet, and with 3 small scenes of pirate life depicted underneath, is signed by Gaspard Bouttats. (24), 448 (=248), (16); (6), 285, (17) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [Caribbean Islands]  America, North  Cartography  Piracy  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The book that shaped our archetype of buccaneers View picture(s) 5 EXQUEMELIN, Alexandre Olivier [together with RAVENEAU DE LUSSAN (vol. 3) and Captain Charles JOHNSON (Ps. of Daniel DEFOE?; vol. 4]. Histoire des aventuriers flibustiers qui sont signalés dans les Indes, contenant ce qu'ils y ont fait de remarquable, avec la vie, les moeurs & les coutumes des boucaniers, & des habitants de St. Domingue & de la Tortue; une description exacte de ces lieux, & un état des offices, tant eccésiastiques que séculiers, & ce que les grands princes de l'Europe y possedent. Nouvelle édition, corrigée & augmentée de l'Histoire des pirates Anglois ... Vol. 3: Sieur RAVENEAU de LUSSAN, Le journal du voyage fait à la Mer du Sud. Vol. 4: Capitaine Charles JOHNSON, Histoire des pirates Anglois depuis leur etablissement dans l'Isle de la Providence jusqu'à present. Contenant toutes leurs aventures, pirateries, meurtres, cruautés, excès, &c. Avec la vie et les aventures de deux femmes pirates, Marie Read et Anne Bonny, et un extrait des loix & des ordonnances concernant la piraterie. Trevoux (near Lyon), 'Par la Compagnie', 1775. 4 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt in compartments with red and green title labels lettered in gold, marbled endpapers and edges. With 3 folding plates of buccaneers, a Spanish ship and the hunt on turtles; and 4 folding maps of the surroundings of Maracaibo and Lake Marecaye (1686), Vera Cruz with the island St Jean de Lutz, Panama (Listhme de Panama, 1686), and Gartagene in the Spanish West Indies (Colombia), all illustrating the first two vols. (12), 394, (2); (2), 428; 348; (2), 60, 356, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  America [Caribbean Islands]  French  Piracy  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From India overland to London, by the son of the Duke of Clarence, afterwards William IV View picture(s) 6 FITZCLARENCE, George Augustus Frederick. Journal of a route across India, through Egypt, to England in the latter end of the year 1817, and the beginning of 1818. London, Thomas Davison for John Murray, 1819. 4to. Contemporary calf with blind-tooled border and gilt fillet along the edges, edges marbled, marbled endpapers. With a large folding partly coloured map of the seat of war in India, a full-page map of Egypt with the route through the desert and down the Nile taken by Fitzclarence to reach Alexandria, 12 full-page aquatints (9 coloured, 2 uncoloured) and 5 full-page plans (4 partly coloured plans of battlefields in India; 1 of a temple). XXIV, 502 [including p. 168-169*] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colour Platebooks  Costumes  Discovery & Exploration  Egypt  England  India  Militaria  Piracy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the pirates of North Africa View picture(s) 7 HERRMANN, Friedrich. Ueber die Seeräuber im Mittelmeer und ihre Vertilgung. Ein Völkerwunsch an den erlauchten Kongreß in Wien. Mit den nöthigen historischen und statistischen Erläuterungen. Lubeck, Michelsen, 1815. 8vo. Contemporary boards. (8), 438, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  German  Piracy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Piracy in the South Seas View picture(s) 8 KEPPEL, Henry. A visit to the Indian Archipelago, in H.M. ship Maender with portions of the private journal of Sir James Brooke, K.C.R. London, Richard Bentley, 1853. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary purple cloth. With a large folding engraved chart of the Indian Archipelago showing the track of H.S. ship Maender by J. & C. Walker, 8 coloured lithographed plates by Oswald W. Brierley. XV, 301; VIII, 286 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Cartography  China  Discovery & Exploration  Exploration  Piracy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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History of piracy in Mindanao, Jolo and Borneo View picture(s) 9 MONTERO Y VIDAL, José. Historia de la pirateria malayo-mahometana en Mindanao Joló y Borneo. Comprende desde el descubrimiento de dichas islas hasta junio de 1888. Tomo I [-II]. Madrid, Manuel Tello, 1888. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. XX, 751, [1], 130 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: East Indies  History  Indonesia  Malaysia  Philippines  Piracy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The account of a voyage of a Swedish privateer together with a vivid travelaccount on Germany View picture(s) 10 MORTIMER, George. Engelsmannen Joh. Hindric Cox Resa Genom Söderhafvet Till On Amsterdam, Marien-Oarna, O-Taheiti, Sandvichs-och Räf-Oarna, Tinian, Unalaska och Canton i China. Nyköping, Peter Winge, 1798. 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. 77, (3 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Cook  Europe  German  Hawaii  Literature  Pacific  Piracy  Russia  Sweden  Trade  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the best and most entertaining buccaneer travel accounts View picture(s) 11 RAVENEAU DE LUSSAN. Journal du Voyage fait a la Mer de Sud avec les flibustiers de l'Amerique. Paris, Jacques le Febure, 1705. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt with red title-label. (10), 443, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Piracy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the best accounts of the Isthmus of Panama, including the earliest clear account and illustration on the use of a cigar View picture(s) 12 WAFER, Lionel. A new voyage and description of the Isthmus of America. London, printed for James Knapton, 1704. 8vo. Contemporary gold-tooled calf. Kept in specially made cloth chemise and black half morocco slipcase (DESMONTS J. MAC DONALD CO, Norwalk, Conn). With folding engraved map of the Isthmus of Darien and Panama Bay and 3 folding engraved plates depicting Indians by I. Savage. [16], 283, [12] [1 bookseller's advert.] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  18th Century  America [Central]  Ethnography  Exploration  Gold  Natural History  Piracy  Surgery  Tobacco  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important for the history of shipwrecks View picture(s) 13 WOODARD, David (& William VAUGHAN). Relation des malheurs et de la captivité, pendant deux ans et cinq mois, du capitaine David Woodard, et de quatre de ses compagnons, dans l'isle de Céléèbès, située sous la ligne équinoxiale; avec la description de cette isle, de ses productions, et des moeurs et coutumes de ses habitants; suivie de plusieurs récits intéressans de naufrages modernes. Traduit de l'Anglais sur la 3e. édition. Paris, F. Buisson, An XIV-1805. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments with black morocco title label, lettered in gold, gilt binding edges. With the silhouette portrait of Captain Woodard in 1796 at the age of 37 as frontispiece, 2 folding maps and 1 folding plate with two indigenous ships. (4), 322 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: French  Malaysia  Philippines  Piracy  Shipwrecks  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The life of a famous and notorious French bandit View picture(s) 14 [CHAPBOOK - DUTCH]. 't Leven van den waereld-berugten kapitein der moordenaren, Louis Dominique de Cartouche. Behelsende een verhaal van desselfs af-komst, opvoeding, ongehoorde gaauwdieveryen, gevangen-neeming, verwonderens-waardige uitbreeking der gevankenis, zeldsame verdediging en en (sic!) daar op gevolgde bekeering en executie binnen de stad van Parys. Uit het Fransch vertaald. De tiende druk, van nieuws geçorrigeert en van fouten gesuyvert. Zynde verçierd met fraije nieuw ge Amst., A. Goejet, 1787. Sm. 8vo. Orig. boards. With 10 full-page woodcut plates. (8), 117, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Criminology  Dutch  Piracy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The life and adventures of Louis Dominique Cartouche View picture(s) 15 [CHAPBOOK - GERMAN]. Leben und Thaten Des Welt-berüchtigten Spitzbuben Louis Dominique Cartouche, und seiner Cammeraden, Sammt Deren ganszen Process, End-Urtheil, und Execution. II. Edition, aufs neue übersehen, und an einigen Orten vermehrt. Nach dem wahren Pariser Exemplar übersetzt, 1722. 4to. Wrappers. With engraved portrait on title, showing Cartouche, elegantly dressed, holding a pistol in his hand. 69, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Criminology  German  Piracy  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With an account on the expedition of Frances Drake and John Norris View picture(s) 16 [DRAKE, Francis]. BYLER, Henricus Carolinus VAN (Ed.). Libellorum rariorum partim editorum partim ineditorum fasciculus primus continens, Josephi Teixerae de Portugalliae ortu, regni initiis..... Friderici Henrici serinissimi Bohemorum regis Friderici filii, electorum Paltinorum Rheni prosapiam..... Georgii Sohniii orationem historicam de fundatione et conservatione laudatissimae Academia Heidelbergensis. Groningen, Jacobus Sipkes, 1733. Small 8vo. Later boards. Folding tabel in part 5 with historical calendar, woodcut initials. (1), 3-20, (6), 1-80, 81-91, (1), 93-136, 137-251, (1), 253-299, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: England  Groningen  History  Low Countries  Piracy  Portugal  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The "Jefferson Borden" Mutiny View picture(s) 17 [MILLER, George]. Circuit court of the United States, district of Massachusetts. The Jefferson Borden Mutiny. Trail of george Miller, John Glew and William Smith for murder on the high seas. Before Clifford and Lowell. Boston, Printed under direction of the clerk of the court, 1876. 12mo. Original printed wrappers. 141 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Americana  Law  Piracy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A gripping tale View picture(s) 18 [NAVAL HISTORY]. Case of the Somers' mutiny. Defence of Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, Commander of the U.S. Brig Somers, before the court martial held at the navy yard, Brooklyn. New York, Tribune office 1843. 8vo. Later half leather with blue boards. 30, II pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Americana  Law  Piracy  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Closing a deal with the pirates of Salé View picture(s) 19 [PIRACY - PAMPHLET]. Tractaet van vrundtschap ende verbintenisse beslooten den negenden februarii 1651. Tusschen de hoogh mog. heeren Staten Generael van de Geunieerde Nederlanden/ ten eenre: ende heeren Gouverneurs ende superieuren van de steden van Salé in Barbarye/ ter andere zyde. The Hague, Widow & heirs of Hillebrandt Jacobsz. van Wouw, 1651. 4to. Bound. With a woodcut on title showing the Dutch lion in roundel with borders depicting armory and two soldiers. [4] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Maritime History  Morocco  Pamphlets  Piracy  Slavery  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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