Buccaneers of America: A True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of Late Years Upon the Coast of the West Indies by the Buccaneers of Jamaica and Tortuga, both English and French

John Esquemeling (Translated from the Dutch. Revised & edited by William Swan Stallybrass)

Published by George Routledge & Son, London

About this Item

Near fine Broadway Translations edition. No publication date cited. Originially published in Amsterdam in 1678. Brown boards with white cloth to spine. Internally clean, square, binding tight. All plates present.Some smudges to white cloth. Embossed title card on spine shows some wear. Stallybrasses's revised and edited verbatim reprint (with some modernized spelling) of the English edition originally published in 1684-5. Introductory essay by Andrew Lang. Written by "one of the buccaneers who was present at these tragedies.".

Seller Inventory # 10460

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Buccaneers of America: A True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of Late Years Upon the Coast of the West Indies by the Buccaneers of Jamaica and Tortuga, both English and French
• Publisher: George Routledge & Son, London
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st thus
• Condition: Near Fine