RELATION DE L'EXPEDITION DE CARTHAGENE, FAITE PAR LES FRANÇOIS EN M.DC.XCVII
[Pointis, Jean Bernard Louis]
Verlag: Amsterdam, 1698
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[8],143pp. plus one (of two) folding plates. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt extra, gilt leather label. Rubbed at extremities, front hinge cracked. Bookplate of John Carter Brown on front pastedown, with his ink stamp on second leaf and small deaccession stamp on bookplate. Minor scattered foxing. Small tear to inner edge of map, expertly closed. Very good. Lacks the plan of Carthagena. The first edition of this first-hand account relating the French attack on Carthagena, organized and led by the Baron de Pointis. The expedition left Brest on Jan. 9, 1697, stopping at Santo Domingo to pick up Jean Baptiste Ducasse, then governor of Tortuga, and some six hundred buccaneers. After a ferocious fight the city capitulated to the French buccaneers on May 3, and Pointis was able to secure at least $15,000,000 in booty. The six hundred pirates pillaged and burned the city for three days and Pointis emerged triumphant. The large folding map depicts the southeastern Caribbean. Only three copies are recorded at auction (including this one) in the last thirty years. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 698/169. PALAU 260435. SABIN 63700. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers WRCAM41467
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Titel: RELATION DE L'EXPEDITION DE CARTHAGENE, ...
Verlag: Amsterdam
Erscheinungsdatum: 1698
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RELATION DE L'EXPEDITION DE CARTHAGENE, FAITE PAR LES FRANÇOIS EN M.DC.XCVII.
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Amsterdam. 1698., 1698
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Anbieter: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, USA
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[8],143pp. plus one (of two) folding plates. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt extra, gilt leather label. Rubbed at extremities, front hinge cracked. Bookplate of John Carter Brown on front pastedown, with his ink stamp on second leaf and small deaccession stamp on bookplate. Minor scattered foxing. Small tear to inner edge of map, expertly closed. Very good. Lacks the plan of Carthagena. The first edition of this first-hand account relating the French attack on Carthagena, organized and led by the Baron de Pointis. The expedition left Brest on Jan. 9, 1697, stopping at Santo Domingo to pick up Jean Baptiste Ducasse, then governor of Tortuga, and some six hundred buccaneers. After a ferocious fight the city capitulated to the French buccaneers on May 3, and Pointis was able to secure at least $15,000,000 in booty. The six hundred pirates pillaged and burned the city for three days and Pointis emerged triumphant. The large folding map depicts the southeastern Caribbean. Only three copies are recorded at auction (including this one) in the last thirty years. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 698/169. PALAU 260435. SABIN 63700. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 41467
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