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MARITIME HISTORY - TRAVELLING -- (EXQUEMELIN, A.O.). Historie der boecaniers, of vrybuyters van America. Amst., N. ten Hoorn, 1700. 3 parts in 1 vol. (8), 219; 136, (8) pp. (last leaf blank). W. engr. front. by C. Huijberts & 7 engr. plates (1 fold.), some signed J. Lamsvelt in the plate. 4°. Cont. vellum. (Ties fail, fold. map of South-America lacks, a bit loosening, (margins) a bit stained/soiled in places ).
Scarce second edition of a book which became immensely popular and that was almost immediately translated in various languages. Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin (also spelled Esquemeling, Exquemeling, or Oexmelin) (c. 1645–1707) was a French, Dutch or Flemish writer best known as the author of one of the most important sourcebooks of 17th-century piracy, first published in Dutch in Amsterdam, by Jan ten Hoorn, in 1678. - Sabin 23469; Muller 580 ("This edition is less scarce than that of 1678, but both have remained nearly entirely unknown for a long while, so that generally the Spanish translation, (Cologne, 1681) was taken for the original."). Sabin and Muller call for 7 plates, not mentioning the map of South-America.€ 500
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