Les "Freres de la Coste" Filibustiers & Corsaires.
Paris: Éditions Duchartre & van Buggenhoudt, 1928. First edition. Read More about Les "Freres de la Coste" Filibustiers & Corsaires
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Memoirs of Stephen Burroughs.
Hanover, New Hampshire: Benjamin True [Vol. I]; Boston: Printed by E. Lincoln for Caleb Bingham [Vol. II], 1798-1804. First editions of both volumes. Notable account of an American scoundrel. Stephen Burroughs (1765-1840) was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, enlisted in the army at age 14. He soon deserted and was..... Read More about Memoirs of Stephen Burroughs
Price: $2,500
Privateer, Counterfeiter, Rogue, and Schoolteacher
Memoirs of Stephen Burroughs. To which is added, Notes, and an Appendix.
Albany: Published by B.D. Packard, No. 51 State-Street. R. Packard, Printer, 1811. First edition of both parts together, with additions. Privateer, Counterfeiter, Rogue, and Schoolteacher. Notable account of an American scoundrel. Stephen Burroughs (1765-1840) was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, enlisted in the army at age 14. He soon deserted..... Read More about Memoirs of Stephen Burroughs. To which is added, Notes, and an Appendix
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The History of the Bucaniers of America.
London: T. Evans and W. Otridge, 1774. Fifth Edition. The classic book on buccaneering. Exquemelin was an eyewitness of many of the events he records here, and the work has been the source and inspiration for innumerable tales, novels, plays, and films. “Perhaps no book in any language was ever..... Read More about The History of the Bucaniers of America
Price: $750
Salt Air.
Dublin: Irish Bookshop Limited, 1923. Fisrt Edition of the author's fisrt book. Irish poet and theatre director Frederick Robert Higgins' first collection of poems. Higgins' circle of friends included many of the leading Irish literary figures of his time, including Yeats, Padraic O Conaire, George William Russell, Lennox Robinson, and..... Read More about Salt Air
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Lafitte: The Pirate of the Gulf.
New York: Published by Harper & Brothers, 1836. First edition. Read More about Lafitte: The Pirate of the Gulf
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Document Signed. 1662 privy seal warrant issued to future Jamaican privateer and Speaker of the Jamaica House of Assembly, Sir...
[Southampton House, England]: 21 April 1662. According to David F. Marley’s Pirates of the Americas, Sir Thomas Whetstone (1630/31–1668?) was a nephew of Oliver Cromwell “reduced from a Commonwealth naval Commodore into an impoverished West Indian rover, before dying in Spanish hands.” Whetstone is described by ODNB as a naval..... Read More about Document Signed. 1662 privy seal warrant issued to future Jamaican privateer and Speaker of the...
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Drawing: "Pepe Lulu was on hand at the hour he appointed,"
1888. Illustration for Eugene V. Smalley's short story "An Ancient Haunt of Pirates" a 1888 short story published in St. Nicholas Magazine. Read More about Drawing: "Pepe Lulu was on hand at the hour he appointed,"
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Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit...
New York: Baker & Godwin, Printers, 1862. First edition. Read More about Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United...
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Le Petit Corsaire, ou Le Retour, Comèdie en Un Acte et en Prose, Melée de Vaudevilles; de Mm. Rougemont, Merle...
Paris: Chez Mme. Masson, Libraire, Editeur de Pièces de Théatre et de Musique, rue de l'Echelle, 1812. The text has some contemporary annotations in ink making corrections to the text (mostly deletions) and corrects the price on the title page. No doubt it was formerly owned by someone involved in..... Read More about Le Petit Corsaire, ou Le Retour, Comèdie en Un Acte et en Prose, Melée de Vaudevilles; de Mm....
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L'Aumônier des Corsaires. L'Abbé Jouin (1672-1720).
Nantes: L. Durance, [1926]. First edition. Read More about L'Aumônier des Corsaires. L'Abbé Jouin (1672-1720
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The Buccaneers of America. A True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults committed of late Years upon the Coasts of...
London: George Allen & Company, Ltd, 1911. Now faithfully rendered into English. With Facsimiles of all the Original Engravings. Read More about The Buccaneers of America. A True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults committed of late Years...
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Mississippi River Piracy
Die Flusspiraten des Mississippi.
Leipzig: Hermann Costenoble, 1858-1862. First Stereoptype edition. Mississippi River Piracy. Early set of this perennially popular German novel of antebellum life among the flatboatmen, Indians, and river pirates of the Mississippi. Read More about Die Flusspiraten des Mississippi
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Los Piratas del Golfo. Novela Histórica.
Mexico: Editor, Manuel C. de Villegas. Imprenta de la “Constitucion Social”, 1869. Historical novel set in the mid-17th century, featuring Captain Juan Morgan. Read More about Los Piratas del Golfo. Novela Histórica
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The Rose of Paradise: Being a Detailed Account of Certain Adventures That Happened to Captain John Mackra, in Connection with...
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. First edition. Read More about The Rose of Paradise: Being a Detailed Account of Certain Adventures That Happened to Captain...
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Los piratas de las Bermudas … Versión Española de Francisco Javier Godo.
Barcelona: Maucci, [n.d.]. Read More about Los piratas de las Bermudas … Versión Española de Francisco Javier Godo
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Vies et Exploits des Voleurs de Grands Chemins, Pirates et Brigands.
Paris: Imprimiere d'Hippolyte Tilliard, 1835. First French edition. Read More about Vies et Exploits des Voleurs de Grands Chemins, Pirates et Brigands
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The Diseases of the Madras Famine of 1877-78.
Madras: Government Press, 1889. First edition. Read More about The Diseases of the Madras Famine of 1877-78
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Memorial of Sundry Inhabitants of the State of Massachusetts, on the Subject of Privateering. January 26, 1821. Referred to the...
Washington, D.C: Foot & Brown, 1821. First edition. Read More about Memorial of Sundry Inhabitants of the State of Massachusetts, on the Subject of Privateering....
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The Ruby of Kishmoor.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1908. First edition. Read More about The Ruby of Kishmoor
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Pyle on Pirates
Stolen Treasure.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1907. First Edition. Pyle on Pirates. A collection of four pirate stories, a favorite Pyle theme. Read More about Stolen Treasure
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"There leaned against the rail a single man, of an age in the middle-thirties, with a keen, strong face and...
N.p: 1923. An early commercial work by the great American sporting artist Aiden Lassell Ripley (1896-1969) — an original pencil drawing for the 1924 Newbery Medal-winning The Dark Frigate, by Charles Boardman Hawes. The illustration, which depicts Captain Candle of The Rose of Devon, appears facing page 70. The Dark..... Read More about "There leaned against the rail a single man, of an age in the middle-thirties, with a keen,...
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BR & Howard PYLE
A Report of the truth concerning the last sea-fight of the Revenge.
[Cambridge]: Designed by Bruce Rogers for the Riverside Press, [1902]. Pyle, Howard. Number 139 of 300 copies. BR & Howard PYLE. It was not only designed by him, but was printed in a trial font of his own Montaigne typeface. Blumenthal (Bruce Rogers, p. 15) quotes a letter from Rogers..... Read More about A Report of the truth concerning the last sea-fight of the Revenge
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Kate Bonnet. The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1902. First edition, printing C of p. 423 with Some Women I have Known as first title advertised. Read More about Kate Bonnet. The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter
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A Fictional Advocate of the Canal in Egypt
Scènes Orientales. Rêve d'un vieux Marin (15 décembre 1852).
Toulon: Imprimerie de Ve Baume, 1853. A Fictional Advocate of the Canal in Egypt. Colorful oriental romance set in the Muslim Mediterranean, with numerous sailing scenes and interviews with the Ottoman Sultan. In one of these, the narrator remarks: “Egypt, that ancient cradle of the world and first conduit for..... Read More about Scènes Orientales. Rêve d'un vieux Marin (15 décembre 1852
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