EXQUEMELIN RAVENEAU DE LUSSAN & DEFOE Histoire des avanturiers flibustiers qui se sont signalez dans les Indes… Nouvelle édition Corrigée & Augmentée de l’Histoire des Pirates Anglois depuis leur Etablissement dans l’Isle de la Providence jusqu’à présent.

Sabin, 23477 ; 67985n, & 36192 ; Palau, 85746 ; JCB (1), III, 780 ; Alden, 744/185.

Fine collected edition combining these three classic work on pirates and buccaneers. The first one, and at the same time the most famous, was written by the pirate Henry Morgan’s ship surgeon, Alexander-Olivier Exquemelin (ca. 1645-1707). The first two volumes contain the surgeon’s diary in the French version by Jean de Frontignières (published for the first time in 1686). Volume III contains the Journal du voyage fait à la Mer du Sud by the French adventurer and pirate Jacques Raveneau de Lussan (ca. 1663-1690), whose first edition was published in 1689. The last volume contains a ‘documentary fiction’ written by Daniel Defoe under the supposed name Captain Charles Johnson (published for the first time in 1724 and first translated in 1725) : Histoire des pirates anglois (…) avec les avantures des deux Femmes Pirates Marie Read & Anne Bonny. The plates and maps depict pirates, lake Maracaibo, a map of Santa Cruz, a Spanish boat, turtle fishing, the Panama Detroit and a plan of Cartagena de las Indias.

Good copy uniformy bound, some occasional foxing, small marginal waterstain to volume I. From the library of Château de Rosny ("La Solitude" with the book plate).