Item 41240Les "Freres de la Coste" Filibustiers & Corsaires.
Price: $150
Paris: Éditions Duchartre & van Buggenhoudt, 1928. First edition. Read More Item Details for Les "Freres de la Coste" Filibustiers & Corsaires Add to Wish List
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Item 321087Memoirs of Stephen Burroughs.
Price: $2,500
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 Item Details for Memoirs of Stephen Burroughs Add to Wish List
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Privateer, Counterfeiter, Rogue, and Schoolteacher
Item 365675Memoirs of Stephen Burroughs. To which is added, Notes, and an Appendix.
Price: $1,000
Albany: Published by B.D. Packard, No. 51 State-Street. R. Packard, Printer, 1811. First edition of both parts together, with additions. 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 then admitted to..... Read More Item Details for Memoirs of Stephen Burroughs. To which is added, Notes, and an Appendix Add to Wish List
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A Buccaneering Classic
Item 377760A Collection of Voyages. In Four Volumes.
Price: $8,500
London: James and John Knapton, 1729. A solid set of the most complete version of these important voyages. Dampier is generally described as the first Englishman to set foot on the Australian continent. This is first collected edition, and the best textually, of Dampier's voyages. The sectional titlepage in the..... Read More Item Details for A Collection of Voyages. In Four Volumes Add to Wish List
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The Stevens-Church Copy: ‘So I Determined ... to Enter into the Order of the Pirates’
Item 371670Bucaniers of America: Or, a true Account of the Most remarkable Assaults Committed of the late years upon the Coasts...
Price: $25,000
London: for William Crooke, 1684–85. First editions in English of both volumes. The first English edition of the first extensive account of the pirates of the West Indies, with all plates and map present. Unusually, this copy is bound with the first edition of the first part, and the first..... Read More Item Details for Bucaniers of America: Or, a true Account of the Most remarkable Assaults Committed of the late years upon the Coasts of The West-Indies, By the Bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga, Both English and French. Wherein are contained more especially, The unparallel'd Exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, our English Jamaican Hero, who sack'd Puerto Velo, burnt Panama, &c. ... [With:] RINGROSE, Basil. Bucaniers of America. The Second Volume, Containing the Dangerous Voyage and Bold Attempts of Captain Bartholomew Sharp, and others; performed upon the Coasts of the South Sea, for the space of two years, &c. From the Original Journal of the said Voyage Add to Wish List
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Item 338123Salt Air.
Price: $250
Dublin: Irish Bookshop Limited, 1923. First Edition of the author's first 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 Item Details for Salt Air Add to Wish List
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Item 250234Document Signed. 1662 privy seal warrant issued to future Jamaican privateer and Speaker of the Jamaica House of Assembly, Sir...
Price: $6,500
[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 Item Details for Document Signed. 1662 privy seal warrant issued to future Jamaican privateer and Speaker of the Jamaica House of Assembly, Sir Thomas Whetstone Add to Wish List
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Item 300196Drawing: "Pepe Lulu was on hand at the hour he appointed,"
Price: $800
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 Item Details for Drawing: "Pepe Lulu was on hand at the hour he appointed," Add to Wish List
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Item 373333The Dying Words of Captain Robert Kidd, a noted Pirate, who was hanged at Execution-Dock, in England.
Price: $3,500
[United States]: [ca. 1790-1810]. Broadside elegies in verse first appeared in London around the time of Captain Kidd's execution for piracy in 1701. Interestingly, American versions did not appear until nearly a century later, in the last decade of the 18th century, based on an English ballad Captain Kidd's Farewel..... Read More Item Details for The Dying Words of Captain Robert Kidd, a noted Pirate, who was hanged at Execution-Dock, in England Add to Wish List
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Item 57685Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit...
Price: $250
New York: Baker & Godwin, Printers, 1862. First edition. Read More Item Details for Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York. Hon Judges Nelson and Shipman, Presiding. Reported by A.F. Warburton, Stenographer Add to Wish List
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Item 35929Le Petit Corsaire, ou Le Retour, Comèdie en Un Acte et en Prose, Melée de Vaudevilles; de Mm. Rougemont, Merle...
Price: $300
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 Item Details for Le Petit Corsaire, ou Le Retour, Comèdie en Un Acte et en Prose, Melée de Vaudevilles; de Mm. Rougemont, Merle et Brazier. Représentée, pour la Premiere Fois, a Paris, sur le Thèatre des Variétés, le 9 Septèmbre 1812 Add to Wish List
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Item 35883Les Contemporains. Tom Souville, Corsaire Calaisien (1777-1839).
Price: $100
[N.p: n.d.]. Article on the life and exploits of Tom Souville, corsair from Calais during the Napoleonic era. Read More Item Details for Les Contemporains. Tom Souville, Corsaire Calaisien (1777-1839) Add to Wish List
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Item 35860L'Aumônier des Corsaires. L'Abbé Jouin (1672-1720).
Price: $150
Nantes: L. Durance, [1926]. First edition. Read More Item Details for L'Aumônier des Corsaires. L'Abbé Jouin (1672-1720) Add to Wish List
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Item 57664The Buccaneers of America. A True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults committed of late Years upon the Coasts of...
Price: $150
London: George Allen & Company, Ltd, 1911. Now faithfully rendered into English. With Facsimiles of all the Original Engravings. Read More Item Details for 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 Bucaneers of Jamaica and Tortuga … Wherein are contained more especially the Unparalleled Exploits of Sir Henry Morgan … Add to Wish List
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Item 62772The Rose of Paradise: Being a Detailed Account of Certain Adventures That Happened to Captain John Mackra, in Connection with...
Price: $300
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Rose of Paradise: Being a Detailed Account of Certain Adventures That Happened to Captain John Mackra, in Connection with the Famous Pirate, Edward England, in the Year 1720, off the island of Juanna in the Mozambique Channel; writ by himself, and now for the first time published Add to Wish List
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Item 35861Vies et Exploits des Voleurs de Grands Chemins, Pirates et Brigands.
Price: $300
Paris: Imprimiere d'Hippolyte Tilliard, 1835. First French edition. Read More Item Details for Vies et Exploits des Voleurs de Grands Chemins, Pirates et Brigands Add to Wish List
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Item 262588The Diseases of the Madras Famine of 1877-78.
Price: $200
Madras: Government Press, 1889. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Diseases of the Madras Famine of 1877-78 Add to Wish List
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Item 217109Memorial of Sundry Inhabitants of the State of Massachusetts, on the Subject of Privateering. January 26, 1821. Referred to the...
Price: $75
Washington, D.C: Foot & Brown, 1821. First edition. Read More Item Details for Memorial of Sundry Inhabitants of the State of Massachusetts, on the Subject of Privateering. January 26, 1821. Referred to the Committee on Commerce Add to Wish List
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Item 62771The Ruby of Kishmoor.
Price: $250
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1908. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Ruby of Kishmoor Add to Wish List
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Item 300948"There leaned against the rail a single man, of an age in the middle-thirties, with a keen, strong face and...
Price: $1,250
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 Item Details for "There leaned against the rail a single man, of an age in the middle-thirties, with a keen, strong face and the manner of a king on a small island" Add to Wish List
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BR & Howard PYLE
Item 249934A Report of the truth concerning the last sea-fight of the Revenge.
Price: $150
[Cambridge]: Designed by Bruce Rogers for the Riverside Press, [1902]. Pyle, Howard. Number 139 of 300 copies. 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 to Carl Purington Rollins..... Read More Item Details for A Report of the truth concerning the last sea-fight of the Revenge Add to Wish List
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Item 373315An Historical and Geographical Account of Algiers; Comprehending a Novel and Interesting Detail of Events Relative to the American Captives...
Price: $1,500
Philadelphia: Printed by Hogan & M'Elroy, 1797. First edition. The first edition of this scarce history of Algiers, focusing particularly on the plight and eventual release of American sailors captured and enslaved by Barbary pirates. This copy contains the often-lacking frontispiece depicting the torture method known as "Bastinading." "The problem..... Read More Item Details for An Historical and Geographical Account of Algiers; Comprehending a Novel and Interesting Detail of Events Relative to the American Captives Add to Wish List
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A Fictional Advocate of the Canal in Egypt
Item 36308Scènes Orientales. Rêve d'un vieux Marin (15 décembre 1852).
Price: $150
Toulon: Imprimerie de Ve Baume, 1853. 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 the vast commerce with the Indies to which..... Read More Item Details for Scènes Orientales. Rêve d'un vieux Marin (15 décembre 1852) Add to Wish List
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