bucaniers america second volume von exquemelin (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First. FROM THE LIBRARY OF ROCKWELL KENT. London: William Crooke, 1684. Second edition in English AND London: William Crooke, 1685. First edition. Quarto (8 7/16" x 6 1/4", 214mm x 159mm). Exquemelin: with 9 engraved plates, of which 3 are folding; and 1 engraved head-piece and two wood-cuts in-line with the text. Ringrose: With 16 engraved plates, of which 14 are integral to the text, and 2 folding. Lacking the front-matter (A4-a4: title, blank, 13pp. to the reader, errata). Bound (re-backed) in later diced calf, with two sets of gilt fillets to the boards, with gilt corner-ornaments and scroll-work. On the spine, 6 panels. Title gilt to red sheep in the second panel. Author ("Esquemeling") gilt to brown sheep in the fourth panel. Date ("1684") gilt to the tail. Gilt inside dentelles. Grey end-papers. All edges of the text-block gilt. Re-backed., with the corners rebuilt and bumped. Worn at the extremities, with a loss and tear to the calf of the upper edge of the back board. Lacking the front matter (8 leaves) of the Ringrose. Damp-stain to the upper spine-corner of the text-block, mostly mild but becoming moderate toward the end of the volume. Crudely-repaired stub-tear to the folding map of the Americas. Mild even tanning throughout, with the odd spot of foxing and soiling. Bookplate of Frances and Rockwell Kent atop another bookplate, as well as that of Sally and Rockwell Kent, to the front paste-down. Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin (ca. 1645-1707), called John Esquemeling in the title, published his account of privateering -- that is, acting as a government-sanctioned private sailor, used to attack, harass and raid enemies of that government -- in 1678 as De Americaensche Zee-roovers ("The American sea-robbers). It was translated into Spanish in 1681, which in turn was the basis of the English edition, first published in 1684. The popular imagination, of course, has a different term for Exquemelin and his Caribbean brethren: pirates. Exquemelin's tale of swashbuckling -- swaggering with a small shield (from French "bouclier") -- ignited the public imagination about the New World perhaps more than any other work besides The Tempest. In a period in which the Spanish and Dutch were near constant enemies of the British, Bucaniers is a curious success. The account of Sir Henry Morgan, whose portrait is the frontispiece of part I, brought libel claims for its sensational claims of rape, torture and other malfeasance. Accusations of inaccuracy, as ever, served only to excite public interest in the work. The first edition sold well enough to spark a second in the same year. The year following a "fourth part" -- a separate work by Basil Ringrose -- was published, and is generally included with the second edition, as here. Ringrose's account carries into the Pacific, describing sorties made under Captain Bartholomew Sharpe. Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) was one of America's great artists. Although deeply tied to the Transcendentalism of New England, his own style was modern. He became renowned as a book illustrator -- most famously of Melville's Moby-Dick -- as well as the preeminent designer of bookplates in the first quarter of the XXc. Kent was also an avid sailor and explorer in his own right; his adventures in Alaska, the Straits of Magellan, Greenland and elsewhere were published throughout his life. It is fitting, therefore, that this foundational text of adventures on the High Seas should be in his library. The two bookplates (designed, naturally, by Kent) date from two of his marriages: first to Frances (née Lee) 1926-1940 and then to Sally (born Shirley Johnston) 1941-1971. ESTC R20706 and R20999; Hill 579; Sabin 23479 & 23481.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First. THE GRAVES-NOVAL-BISSET-HOLDSWORTH COPY. London: William Crooke, 1684. First edition in English. and London: William Crooke, 1685. First edition. Quarto (8 9/16" x 6 9/16", 218mm x 167mm). [Full collation available.] Vol. I: With 9 engraved plates, of which 3 are double-page. Vol. II: With 16 engraved plates, of which 14 are integral to the text, and 2 folding. Bound in contemporary (?) mottled calf (re-backed) with a central panel in blind. On the spine, five raised bands. Title gilt to olive sheep in the second panel. Date gilt to the tail. Gilt roll to the edges of the text-block. All edges of the text-block speckled red. Re-backed. Some chips and scuffs to the boards, with the fore-corners rebuilt. Vol. I: repaired loss to the upper margin of the title-leaf, with some offsetting from the front paste-down. Small loss to the upper edge of Pp3, affecting the head-line. Small hole to Eee2. Marginal tanning and occasional spots of foxing or soiling. Vol. II: repaired loss to the upper margin of the title-leaf, with some creasing. Hole to D1. Tear to the upper edge of V1. V2.3 still joined at the spine-edge, with some attendant tearing. Marginal tanning and occasional spots of foxing or soiling. [Full account of ownership marks available.] Ownership signature of "R. Graves. Hosp. Lincoln. 1697." to p. 20 (D2v) to both volumes. "IoHn NovaL His BooK/ 1701" to the front paste-down of vol. II. Armorial escutcheon with motto of Bisset of Aberdeen cut out and mounted to the verso of the title-page of both volumes. Armorial bookplate of Arthur & Elizabeth Holdsworth of Widdicomb to the front paste-down of vol. I, rear paste-down of vol. II. Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin (ca. 1645-1707) published his account of privateering -- that is, acting as a government-sanctioned private sailor, used to attack, harass and raid enemies of that government -- in 1678 as De Americaensche Zee-roovers ("The American sea-robbers). The popular imagination, of course, has a different term for Exquemelin and his Caribbean brethren: pirates. Exquemelin's tale of swashbuckling ignited the public imagination about the New World perhaps more than any other work besides The Tempest. In a period in which the Spanish and Dutch were near constant enemies of the British, Bucaniers is a curious success. The account of Sir Henry Morgan, whose portrait faces p. 60 of vol. I, brought libel claims for its sensational claims of rape, torture and other malfeasance. The first edition sold well enough to spark a second in the same year. The year following a "fourth part" - Ringrose's account -- was published. The earliest ownership mark is that of Richard Graves (1677-1729) "the antiquary" of Mickleton in Gloucestershire. He signs as "Hosp. Lincoln." For "Hospitium Lincolniense," i.e., Lincoln's Inn, one of the four Inns of Court in London. Graves was admitted to the Inn on 21 October 1693. John Noval owned the set (although his ownership signature is only in vol. II) in 1701. Noval's name (a clerk, with a wife called Judith) appears in the lists of naturalized Protestant emigrés from 10 October 1688. The family whose escutcheon and motto ("tempus edax rerum" ("time, eater of things")) have been cut from a bookplate (?) and pasted to the verso of each title-page is Bisset of Aberdeen. Perhaps the volumes belonged to Charles Bisset (1717-1791), a physician and military engineer who worked in Jamaica and the West Indies as a naval surgeon in Admiral Vernon's fleet. Finally the set came into the library of Arthur Holdsworth (ca. 1757-1787), MP, of Widdicombe, Devon and his wife Elizabeth (née Holdsworth). The Holdsworth family of Dartmouth had long held the governorship of Dartmouth Castle, long a center for piracy and privateering -- especially against the French -- given its position on the English Channel. Church 689; ESTC R21525 (Exquemelin) & R20999 (Ringrose); Hill 578 (Exquemelin) and 579 (the second edn. of Exquemelin with the first edn. of Ringrose); Sabin 23479.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, [12], 115,[1], 51, [1], 124, [12]; [16], 212(215), [24], 4 parts bound in 2 vol., small copper engraved portrait of Henry Morgan pasted to frontispiece of volume one, 9 plates (3 folding) and three engraved texts illustrations in volume one, 17 engraved maps and plans (2 folding) in volume two after Bartholomew Sharp, numerous woodcut text illustrations, occasional light spotting, 4to (240 x 185 mm), contemporary calf, morocco title-piece, spine gilt, boards ruled in gilt,marbled endpapers, bookplate of Frank L. Hadley, London, for William Crooke, 1684-1685 THE GREATEST EARLY BOOK ON BUCCANEERING & PIRACY The First English Edition of Exquemelin with the scarce fourth part by Basil Ringrose describing the Voyages of Captain Bartholomew Sharp. The primary contemporary source in English for the History of the English and French Buccaneers, or more politely privateers who harassed and attacked the Spanish colonies chiefly in the Caribbean during the seventeenth century. Exquemelin s account of the adventures, life, morals, looting, plundering, and taking prisoners for ransom or slavery of the pirates roaming the seas in the later part of the seventeenth century, together with a full description of the Caribbean where they mainly operated. Our prevailing image of the pirate is based on the buccaneer, or filibuster, active in the West Indies in the later 17th century. The story of Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin is the earliest first-hand account on these pirates, written by just such a one of these reluctant desperadoes, from which all others seem to spring. Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin (1646-1717), called Oexmelin by the French, was long considered to be a Dutchman, as the first edition of his seminal and now extremely rare book De Americaensche Zee-Roovers (The Buccaneers of America) published in Amsterdam 1678 was in Dutch. But Exquemelin was born in 1646, at the Northern French port of Honfleur, descending from Huguenot apothecaries. He started his eventful life as a chemist before spending several years with the pirates as a ship s surgeon. He took part in their daring exploits, like the expeditions of the notorious English buccaneer Henry Morgan, one of the most famous names in the annals of piracy (called John in the book), including his raid on Maracaibo in 1669, or a year later his attack on Panama. By 1674 Exquemelin had joined the Dutch Navy, serving with De Ruyter s fleet in the wars against the French. Following the Admiral s death in 1667 he returned to Amsterdam, was granted citizenship and gained his qualification as a ship surgeon in October 1679. During his time in Amsterdam he offered his manuscript containing the description of his previous life to the publisher s Ten Hoorn, who translated it, adapted it to Dutch standards and printed it in 1678. The book became immediately so popular that editions were published everywhere. Hardly any book in any language became the parent of so many imitations and the source of so many legends, and is still popular today. Jan ten Hoorn also had published the works of Hendrik Smeeks (probably one of the sources of Daniel Defoe s Robinson Crusoe). Both publications were heavily edited by ten Hoorn, explaining the similarities of style, so that once is was believed that Exquemelin was a pseudonym of Smeets.The book quickly took on a life of its own, with numerous editions appearing throughout Europe in the following years, many of them fittingly pirated , including the Second Edition of 1679, in German, published in Nuremberg under the title Die Americanischen See-Raüber. A Spanish Edition followed in 1681, titled Piratas de la America; this too was probably published in Amsterdam and not Germany as the title-page claims. The first English edition, aptly published by one William Crook, appeared in 1684 under the title Bucaniers of America: Or, a True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of late Years upon the Coasts of The West-Ind.