Author: ESQUEMELING John
Title: The Buccaneers of America. A True Account of the most remarkable Assaults committed of late Years upon the Coasts of the West Indies by the Buccaneers of Jamaica and Tortuga. Translation of 1684-5 revised by William Swan Stallybrass. With Introductory Essay by Andrew Lang. THE ORIGINAL BROADWAY EDITION IN IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
Description: Routledge,, [1923]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, 7 plates and 2 full-page maps; brown boards, white cloth back with leather label framed and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Modern reissue of the second 1684 edition (which includes two additional chapters), together with Basil Ringrose's fourth part (1685). Written originally in Dutch, translated into Spanish by Alonso de Bonne-Maison and now faithfully rendered into English. THE ORIGINAL BROADWAY EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. NMM IV, 193.

Keywords: naval, piracy, pirates, privateering, esquemeling, john esquemeling, basil ringrose, william stallybrass, andrew lang, broadway translations


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