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Exquemelin (Alexandre Olivier . The History of the Bucaniers of America; from the First Original down to this Time; written in several Languages; and now Collected into one Volume ... 4 parts in 1 volume, The Third Edition, London: for Tho. Newborough, John Nicholson and Benj. Tooke, 1704, printed title and preface, 9 uncoloured engraved plates (7 folding), 16 engraved maps (8 folding), one map (Panama & South America) torn with substantial loss), numerous woodcut coastal profiles, maps and other illustrations in text, index bound at rear, bound with Raveneau De Lussan (Sieur) A Journal of a Voyage made into the South Sea by the Bucaniers or Freebooters of America from the year 1684 to 1689, To Which is Added The Voyage of the Sieur de Montauban, Captain of the Freebooters on the Coast of Guinea in the Year 1695, 2nd edition, London: for Tho. Newborough, John Nicholson and Benj. Tooke, 1704, printed title and facsimile letters, some toning throughout both volumes, occasional near-contemporary marginalia and underlining, near contemporary manuscript ownership signature to the first front blank, later endpapers, modern marbled calf gilt, 8vo (Quantity: 1) ESTC T145511 (six copies in UK libraries); Sabin 23485; cf. Borba de Moraes I pp. 254-6 and Hill (1974) pp. 99-100 for other editions. 'Exquemelin, or Esquemeling, published his De Americaensche Zee Roovers in Amsterdam in 1678 ... Perhaps he never imagined the fabulous success of his book, which became the prototype for all the literature of pirates and buccaneers ever printed in all languages, and for the Hollywood productions on the subject, to this day' (Borba de Moraes). The plates include portraits of pirates Sir Henry Morgan, Bartholomew Portugues, Rock Brasiliano, and Françis Lolonais.