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Subjects
Buccaneers, Pirates, Catalogs, Booksellers', HistoryPlaces
West Indies, Spanish Main, FranceTimes
17th century, 1686Book Details
Edition Notes
Revised and enlarged translation, by M. de Frontignières, of: Piratas de la America / by Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin, first printed in Cologne, 1681, itself a translation of the author's De Amerikaanse zee-rovers, first printed Amsterdam, 1678.
Added engraved title page in volume 1 reads: Histoire des avanturiers, des boucaniers, et de la chambre des comptes, établie dans les Indes, 1686, and has imprint: A Paris, Chez Jacques Le Febvre, au dernier pillier de la Grand'Salle, vis-à-vis les Requestes du Palais.
The dedicatory letter is signed by the translator, who while utilizing the Spanish version by Bonne-Maison practically rewrote the work, rearranging it as to details and giving it a more literary form. Cf. Barros Arana, Notas, p. 72.
Pagination: v 1: [32], 342, [26] p., [5] leaves of plates (3 folded); v. 2, [6], 286, 281-384, [24] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded)
Signatures: v. 1: pi1 (pi1 verso blank) ã⁸ (ã1 verso blank) ẽ⁴ ĩ⁴ (-ĩ4) A-2G⁸⁻⁴ 2H² 2I² (2I2 blank); v. 2: ã⁴ (-ã4) A-Y⁸⁻⁴ Z⁸ 2A⁴(-2A4) 2A⁴ 2B-2L⁸⁻⁴ (2D3 verso blank)
Includes indexes.
Engraved printer's ornaments on title pages; head and tail pieces; initials.
Bookseller's advertisements: v. 1, p. [23-24], 3rd count.
Moraes, R.B. de. Bibliographia brasiliana (1983 edition), I: p. 300.
Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 85742.
Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, books printed 1675-1700, p. 164.
European Americana 686/55.
John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: wanting bookseller's advertisements, v. 1, p. [23-24], 3rd count.
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in later full calf.
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