piracy (20 Ergebnisse)

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Original Wraps. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Louis Wain (cover, piracy), George Henry Thompson (illustrator). Early Printing. Circa 1910. Color-printed, die-cut card wraps, edge & spine wear, loss to base of spine and at the edges of a few pages, pages brittle, will need to be handled with care. Illustrated with 6 pages printed in color, the balance in line. Fables and humorous verses about animals. The cover is a pirated version of Louis Wain's Dandy Lion, some of the b&w artwork is by George Henry Thompson. Size: Folio.

8vo, (192x120mm), viii,490p. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt roll border, rather worn with the joints split and backstrip faded, marbled edges; armorial bookplate of George Henkell. Despite these faults the book includes a nice, and not terribly common, example of red paste-decorated edges. (ESTC 21998) We make no apology for offering this odd volume as ESTC 35365 notes that 'other Edinburgh editions are piracies: this one too?' and cross-references this entry to that note. Furthermore, we find that paste-decorated edges on a book of this date are somewhat less than common. Please note that the advised postage is based on an average book, if possible the postage will be reduced to the correct amount and you will be notified by email.

Second and rare edition of an account of two fatal voyages with two ships. The first voyage was made with the French East Indiaman Le Prince and was commanded by Captain Morin. On 19 February 1752 this ship left the port of Lorient, sailing for Pondicherry. However initially the voyage went well, on 26 April 1752 there was a fire in Le Prince. It spread fast and it also reached the gunpowder magazine. Therefore the ship exploded, as the engraving shows, and only 10 persons survived.The second account concerns the seizure of the Dutch ship Rustenwerk, an East Indiaman of 650-ton. On 28 June 1752 this ship was taken by the pirate Frans Fransz after mooring of Ternate. He and his companions killed 12 people on board, which is depicted in the engraving. The survivors of this violent seizure by Frans Fransz reached Batavia and they sailed to Holland. Although the VOC succeeded in retaking the ship, Frans Fransz. Already escaped with the valuable cargo. A more historical addition to this report is the list it includes of 210 VOC ships lost in the period 1688-1752 through disasters, mutiny and piracy. These two ships are cruel examples of how East Indiamen could be defeated by fate. After this first edition, Mourik also published a second, also undated edition with the same plates. Spine slightly discoloured, otherwise in very good condition.l Landwehr & V.d. Krogt 437; STCN (1 copy); Tiele, Bibl. 1238; Worldcat (7 or 9 copies). Boards covered with modern pink decorated paper, which are also used as paste-downs and endpapers, with a dark brown morocco spine label. With 2 etched plates, the publisher's woodcut BM cypher monogram on the title page, a woodcut tailpiece and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Pages: [2], 37, [1] pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. FIRST HAND ACCOUNTS OF ENCOUNTERS WITH TWO OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL PIRATES WORKING DURING THE GOLDEN AGE OF PIRACY FIRST EDITION, occasional light foxing and toning, bookplate of George Harrison, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, 8vo, London, H.M. and T. Norris, 1721 A rare work containing the most detailed account of piracy known in any contemporary periodical (pp.246-256). The section begins with a report .from the Governor of Bermudas, giving a melancholy Acount of the Havock and Depredations committed by the Pirates about the Leeward Islands , with the number of pirates active in the Caribbean thought to be numbering close to 1500. Following this is an account from Captain Andrew Kingston, concerning the exploits of John Bartholomew Roberts(1682-1722), better known as Black Bart . Kingston writes:  'I hope the ships bound from London to Jamaica, may escape the said Roberts, for he designs to keep that station, and destroy all ships that come to these Islands which may fall into his hands. They left me without any manner of clothing; and Roberts brought my brother (chief mate) to the gears, and whipt him within an inch of his life, by reason he had conceal'd two gold rings in his pocket. This is the dismal account I am to give of the voyage.' The infamous Bartholomew Roberts is considered the most successful pirate during the Golden Age of Piracy , capturing over 400 vessels during three years of his career. He also created his own 'Pirate Code' and invented an early variant of the iconic skull and crossbones flag.  Following this account is a proclamation, requested by the Governor of Jamaica, for the suppression of piracy. A bounty is offered for two pirates in particular; Christopher Winter and Nicholas Brown. There is a correspondence between the Governor and the Alcaldes of Trinidad regarding the pirates being harboured there. "I find the Port of Trinidado a Receptacle to Villains of all Nations." The English demands were refused as the two pirates had been baptised in the Catholic faith.  Next is an extract of a letter from Captain Mackra, who lost his ship Cassandra on his way to the East Indies. Unfortunately for Mackra, the pirates who took his ship were under the command of the infamous Edward England. Edward England (1685-1721) began his career under Henry Jennings and Charles Vane. After they accepted the King's Pardon, England sailed for Africa, spawning the career of Bartholomew Roberts and many other pirates along the way. He sailed under a similar flag as Black Sam Bellamy. Like Bellamy, England was known for his kindness and compassion as a leader, unlike many other pirates of the time. A scarce and important work with first hand accounts of encounters with two of the most successful pirates working during The Golden Age of Piracy . .

4to. (8) pp. Later marbled boards with shelfmark label to front cover. Extraordinary account of a fire in the port of Algiers planted by the British pirate-hunter Richard Gifford. Of the utmost rarity: "unknown to Lowndes, and other bibliographers" (Libri). Only two library copies traceable internationally (St. Pancras Library, London, and Amsterdam University Library). - On Holy Tuesday 1604, in the service of the Duke of Tuscany and under the pretext of becoming a pirate, Gifford set the Algerian galley fleet on fire in the notorious pirate-ridden port of Algiers, causing fierce retaliation by the Algerians. "Although he escaped and there was not much damage done, about a dozen Englishmen including his abandoned crew members were all executed. Furthermore, the pasha banned English ships, Janissaries seized English citizens and arrested English merchants, confiscating their goods for the damage done by Gifford" (Güvenç). - "During the Anglo-Spanish wars Captain Richard Gifford had served under Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Hawkins [.] after the wars he became a pirate-hunter, a freelance mercenary hired by the grand Duke of Florence to extirpate the infamous nest of sea rovers at Algiers" (Bak). - Spine rubbed; somewhat foxed throughout. Handwritten date "1825" to flyleaf, likely the date of acquisition. - The celebrated library of M. Guglielmo Libri 184. Senlen Güvenç, "A Foe to All Christians": The Notorious English Corsair Captain and Ottoman Reis John Ward", Çanakkale Arastirmalari Türk Yilligi 29 (2020), 35-54, at p. 41. Bak, Barbary Pirate, Stroud 2006, 47.

Leather bound. Zustand: Good. Isaac Jackson's The True Reading Made Easy, printed in Dublin by Quaker printer John Gough in 1795, an important work in establishing piracy laws in England. (illustrator). Later printing. Sixteenmo, 142, [2] pp. Period leather binding, double ruled line border blind stamped on covers. Corners and edges rubbed, worn through in places. Spine worn, cracked with partial separation at front and back joints, some loss of leather at ends. Some soiling and dampstaining to covers. Despite issues, binding is stable. Woodcut illustrations, all pages present. Toning to text pages, some dog-eared pages from handling, corners torn on pages 65/66. No notations except for a gift inscription on the front pastedown. Additional title page precedes the 1795 title page, with the imprint listed as Dublin, Printed and Sold by and for Robert Jackson, 1793. Robert Jackson was Isaac Jackson's son, and he had printed an edition of this book prior to his death in 1793. OCLC locates only one copy of the 1793 edition in the British Library. No copies of this 1795 Gough edition located in OCLC or NUC. Even with its flaws, this is a nice example of a scarce eighteenth century primer. Isaac Jackson (1705-1772) was a printer, bookseller and typefounder. Before becoming a printer in 1737, Jackson was a Quaker schoolmaster. He compiled his first Reading Made Easy in the 1740s, and after several pirated editions began to appear, he revised this work in 1759. When Jackson died in 1772, his printing and bookselling business passed to his son, Robert (1748-1793), who printed The True Reading Made Easy in 1793. Robert died this same year, and the business passed to his sister Rachel (1755-1836). The following year Rachel decided to retire and chose John Gough as her successor. Gough carried a large selection of children's books in his shop, and he, too, printed The True Reading Made Easy in 1795. Gough died in 1818.

Zustand: Removed, stapled. First edition. First edition. Folding chart. 4 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. S & S 10930 (2 copies LC and Princeton) and Woirldcat adds AAS. S & S 10930 (2 copies LC and Princeton) and Woirldcat adds AAS Folding chart. 4 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

Scarce: no other copy traced. 1p, 8vo. Extracted from a volume of Parliamentary Circulars with the ownership signature "Frederick Peel", Member of Parliament (from Feb. 1849), dated 1839-1851). In fair condition, lightly aged. Disbound from a volume and paginated in manuscript 37. Printed 'Circular' dated from Downing Street, 16 December 1842. Headed in manuscript 'Crime in the high Seas'. At bottom, in manuscript (not Stanley's hand): '/sd/ Stanley'. Twenty-nine lines in copperplate font. The first of four paragraphs reads: 'The attention of Her Majesty's Government has been recently called to various Laws enacted in the British Colonies for the prevention, regulation, or punishment of acts done in the High Seas, as on the Seas within one League of the Shore of the Colonies in which such Laws have originated. After consultation with the Queen's Advocate, and the Attorney and Solicitor General, Her Majesty's Government have adopted the following conclusions on the subject.'.

First edition. First edition. xxii, 385 pp. 1 vols. Large 8vo. Original brown blind-stamped cloth. Rebacked, spine and edges chipped, else a tight, clean copy. Gift inscription xxii, 385 pp. 1 vols. Large 8vo.

Very rare 17th-century Dutch edition of the earliest published biography devoted entirely to a pirate, and one of the most vivid narratives of maritime freebooting to emerge from the Dutch Golden Age.Claes Gerritszoon Compaen (1587-1660), began respectably as a merchant before turning privateer and ultimately pirate. Around 1620, he abandoned the constraints of licensed privateering, despite holding a commission from the States-General and the Prince of Orange, and embarked upon an independent career of sea-robbery. For three years, he hijacked ships in the English Channel, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and off the coasts of Africa, America, and the West-Indies, acquiring a formidable reputation. Contemporary chroniclers record that Spaniards, Portuguese, French and English alike feared his attacks. Officially branded a "Zee-Roover" and "Schelm", he nevertheless achieved legendary status and, remarkably, was eventually pardoned and allowed to return to Oostzaan, where he lived out his days as a local celebrity.First published in 1659, the present work proved an immediate success and ran through numerous editions into the early 19th century (to 1803). All editions are now scarce, the 17th-century editions (1659, 1662, 1675, 1688) in particular. The text is set in gothic textura type, characteristic of popular Dutch prose works of the period, and most editions, including the present, are illustrated with woodcuts. With a black oval library stamp of "Missie Huis Arnhem" in the bottom outer corner of the front wrapper, the number "9>" in the top margin of the front wrapper and the title page, an ownership stamp of "de Mul" on the inside of the front wrapper and on the title page, and a small bookplate of "Librairie ancienne et mod Nartinus[!] Nijhoff La Haye" mounted on the inside of the front wrapper. The paper wrapper is worn, the spine has previously been stengthened with black paper/tape, the whole is now covered with protective clear tape. Slight foxing and browning throughout, with a small tear in the outer margin of pp. 39-40 (not affecting the text). The present work is complete, but leavs in the final quire have been mis bound: p. 30 is followed by pp. 35-38, 31-34, 39-42.l Buisman 116; Lunsford, Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands (2005), pp. 161-163; STCN 097051624 (1 copy); USTC 1811907 (1 copy); WorldCat 951918594 (6 copies); cf. Cat. NHSM, p. 897 (1659 ed.); Muller, America 2131; Muller 839-840 (other eds.); Sabin 15015 (1663 & 1685 eds.); Scheepers II, 1026; Tiele, Mémoire, pp. 248-249; Waller 218 (all ed. 1662). Contemporary multicolour brocade paper wrapper, covered with protective clear plastic. With a large woodcut illustration of a Dutch merchant ship on the title page, 3 woodcut illustrations in the text (including a repeat of the woodcut on the title page), and a large decorated woodcut initial. Pages: [6], 42 pp.

Broadside, on laid paper. Two woodcut illustrations. Text in two columns. 11-3/4x8-3/4 inches. 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 Kid's Farewel to the Seas: "The ballad was blessed with a familiar tune. It almost immediately came to the Colonies, where it was so popular for a hundred years that the rude verse of its twenty two five-line stanzas was worn down to easier smoothness and its narrative naïvely reworked . Thus the rather accurate news ballad of 1701 became the almost completely fictitious cry of a lost soul by 1801, horror mounting to a climax and the emotions and senses engulfed the while in the multitudinous repetition of the melancholy 'as I sailed.' Simple American folk appropriated the ballad, adapting it to the art, tradition, and etiquette they knew" (William H. Bonner, "The Ballad of Captain Kidd" American Literature, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Jan. 1944), pp. 362-380). ESTC and AAS record several difference versions. The relief cuts here would seem to conform to those used by Nathaniel Coverly, Jr. in Boston. All versions are very rare. ESTC W6962 (recording AAS only) Folds, separations, loss to woodcut at upper left, tipped to a larger sheet Broadside, on laid paper. Two woodcut illustrations. Text in two columns. 11-3/4x8-3/4 inches.

A printed commission enforcing the Jay Treaty, requiring captains to convey captured American privateers safely to England for trial as pirates. It is signed by three Lords of the Admiralty - Charles Small Pybus (1766-1810), William Young (1751-1821), and James Gambier (1756-1833) - alongside the Second Secretary to the Admiralty, William Marsden (1754-1836). The commissioners request the "Commanders of His Majesty's Ships of War. send to England all American Citizens, taken by them in Arms, who may have committed any Acts of Hostility or Violence", following the terms of the 21st article of the 1794 Jay Treaty. The commission includes a copy of that article - "we send you herewith a transcript of the XXIst Article of the said Treaty" - printed in the same format on the same watermarked paper. As far as can be determined, neither is recorded in any institutional collection. The Jay Treaty of 1794 preserved peace between Britain and the United States. A major point of contention was that Britain and France, then at war, had recruited American sailors for privateering against one another. Article 21 prohibited the use of American sailors and required that those captured by the Royal Navy be conveyed to Britain for trial as pirates, denying them the protected status of privateers. 2 items, each single bifolium, page size 326 x 204 mm. Each docketed in contemporary hand. Old fold lines, else in effectively fine condition.

Very rare 17th-century edition, in the original Dutch, of the history of the famous Dutch privateer Claes Compaen (1587-1660). He was born at Oostzaan in the Netherlands and started his career as a merchant, but soon became undoubtedly the most daring and notorious Dutch pirate of his day, especially active around 1620. For three years, he hijacked ships in the English Channel, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean and off the coasts of Africa, America and the West-Indies. The present story was first printed in 1659 and ran through more than a dozen editions to 1803, all with the main text set in a textura gothic type, in the later editions a sign that it was a popular book for a lower-class audience. All editions are quite rare but especially the 17th-century ones, thus a very rare edition of one of the most famous pirates.With the bookplate of Buijnsters-Smets on the inside of the front wrapper. The spine is somewhat damaged, internally somewhat browned, foxed and (water) stained, the paper of some leaves is quite thin, leaving some holes, not affecting the text. Otherwise in good condition.l STCN 104026774 (2 copies); WorldCat 1230938838 (1 copy), 966965894 (1 copy); cf. Buisman 114; Muller, America 2131; Scheepers II, 1026; Waller 218 (all ed. 1662); Muller 839/840 (other eds). Later greyish-brown wrappers. With a large woodcut illustration of a Dutch merchant ship on the title page, three woodcut illustrations in the text (including 1 repeat of the title page illustration), and one large decorated woodcut initial. Pages: [1], [1 blank], [4], 42 pp.

First and only edition of this pamphlet, discussing the condemnation of 4 Dutch captains for their cowardly conduct in the Battle of Texel on 29 June 1694 against the French privateer Jan Baert (1650-1702). They are Govert van der Weppelen, Simon Holthuysen, Anthony van der Lith and Cornelis van der Hoeven. All four were removed from their functions and sentenced to a thousand silver ducatons fine, including imprisonment until they payed this fine. All four charges and sentences are described in this pamphlet.The Battle of Texel took place during the Nine Years' War and was a sea battle fought at night between a small group of Dunkirk privateer ships commanded by the pirate Jan Baert and a group of Dutch warships, commanded by the rear admiral Hidde Sjoerds de Vries (1645-1694). Since there was famine in France due to a shortage of grain and therefore high grain prices, Jan Baert was ordered to sail to Norway and bring a convoy of 120 grain ships back to France. However, this convoy, which did not wait for Baert, was immediately captured by the Dutch. Baert searched for the fleet and found it near Texel on June 29. After a fierce battle Baert conquered the fleet, hijacked the grain and also captured Hidde Sjoerds de Vries, who subsequently died in Dunkirk, where the fleet was sailing back to. With a vertical fold in the front wrapper, with a small hole in the title-page (not affecting the text), very slightly foxed and browned, but overall in good condition.l Knuttel 14044; STCN 851209629; Tiele 9358. Modern grey and purple marbled paper wrappers. With woodcut vignette and woodcut initials. Pages: 14, [2 blank] pp.

4to. (3) pp., final blank page. With woodcut illustration on the title-page. Sewn. Scarce account of a naval battle in the Mediterranean that took place near Cap de Begur (Catalonia) between a Spanish vessel and a ship of corsairs from Algiers in April 1623. The latter, carrying "50 Turcs, 4 captured Christians, a black Moorish woman, and a Mallorcan renegade", went up in flames. Allegedly the copy of a letter by a soldier of the Spanish Armada. The illustration shows the Ottoman vessel features 11 sailors at the helms wearing turbans. - Slightly dampstained. Near-contemporary foliation in ink (137-138), suggesting the work was originally part of a larger volume. - Palau 61131. Not in OCLC.

4to. (4) pp. With 2 woodcut vignettes. Sewn. Extremely scarce pamphlet on a naval battle in the Mediterranean near Cabo de Gata (Andalusia). It describes the destruction of a ship of corsairs from Algiers by the Spanish vessel "San Pedro" on 7 January 1621, killing 70 men. The victory proved important for the Spaniards, as the surviving corsairs provided them with useful intelligence, including information regarding the deployment of 30 Algerian vessels in the area, all seeking to rob other ships. However, the Ottomans were ignorant of any Royal Navy galleys which the Spanish suspected in the area, rather presuming them near Mallorca or Sardinia. - Large Jesuit woodcut vignette to the otherwise blank final page. Somewhat browned. Near-contemporary foliation in ink (205-206), suggesting the work was originally part of a larger volume. No copies traceable in libraries worldwide. - Not in OCLC.

Folio (32.5 x 21 cm) & 4to (19.5 x 20.5 cm). Two signed autograph letters in dark brown ink on paper (1 laid, watermarked B Dumas; 1 wove, with no watermark). (2), (2 blank); (2), (2 blank) pp. Two signed autograph letters by Jacques René Pleuc (or possibly Pleve: some letters in his handwriting are ambiguous, but it does not seem to be Cleve or Fleuc), officer of the infamous French 18-gun privateer Le Grand Décidé which had been operating out of Bordeaux since 1799 under its captain Duchesne Lasalle for its owner Pierre Leleu. With the capture of the English frigate Liverpool off the coast of Brittany near Brest around November 1819 Jacques René was made Capitaine de Prise giving him responsibility for the captured ship. In the first letter, seven months later, he writes to Auguste-Anne Bergevin (1753-1831) the relevant authority at Bordeaux, complaining that Leleu has still not paid the promised share of the proceeds from the sale of the booty, which was carried out by the brothers Amédée and (Joseph?) Eugène Larrieu in Bordeaux, perhaps the uncle and father of the politician Amédée Larrieu (1807-1873). He hopes they will relieve the "malheureux en souffrance depuis trop longtems" of the crew. The second letter is addressed to the Larrieu brothers nearly a year after the capture, still trying to secure payment, referring to the earlier letter and naming the ship and the amount of money (5000 francs), not noted in the first letter. The first letter is addressed on the otherwise blank final page. The first letter somewhat tattered at the head with the loss of parts of 3 or 4 words, the second has had its margins trimmed (with no loss) and both were formerly folded for sending. Both are in good condition. A fascinating primary source providing a window into the logistics and finance of a privateering venture.

The first edition of a compelling account of two fatal voyages, of the French East Indiaman Le Prince, and the VOC ship Rustenwerk. Le Prince, commanded by Captain Morin, left the port of Lorient on 19 February 1752, sailing for Pondicherry. The voyage passed quietly until fire was discovered in the ship. It spread fast, and the ship exploded when the fire reached the gunpowder magazine, leaving only 10 survivors. The second account relates the seizure of the ship Rustenwerk, a 650-ton Dutch East Indiaman. Moored off Ternate, it was taken by the pirate Frans Fransz on 28 June 1751 and some 12 passengers (including the Captain) were killed. The survivors reached Batavia by way of Makassar and sailed for Holland. The VOC eventually managed to retake the ship, but Frans Fransz escaped with the valuable cargo. The account includes a list of 210 VOC ships lost in the period 1688-1752 through disasters, mutiny, piracy etc.In good condition.l Landwehr & V.d. Krogt 437; STCN (4 copies); Tiele, Bibl. 1238. Disbound. With 2 etched plates. Further with publisher's woodcut BM cypher monogram on the title page, a woodcut tailpiece and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Pages: [2], 37, [1] pp.

3pp. With light two line BARBADOES (Type A2) late use and London cds, finally rated 3/- (?) Letter from Lieut. Bartleman concerning the prize money due to him from the capture of vessels by HMS Scorpio, La Babet and La Prompte including three American vessels.