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by Alexander Olivier Exquemelin (Author)
Title: De Americaensche zee-roovers: behelsende een pertinente en waerachtige beschrijving van alle de voornaemste roveryen en onmenschelijcke wreedheden, die de Engelse en Franse rovers, tegens de Spanjaerden in America, gepleeght hebben: hier achter is bygevoeght een korte verhandeling van de macht een rijkdommen, die de koninck van Spanje, Karel de Tweede, in America heeft, nevens des selfs inkomsten en regering aldaer: als mede een kort begrijp van alle de voornaemste plaetsen in het selve gewest, onder Christen potentaten behoorende.
Author: A O Exquemelin
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description:
Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.
Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.
Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.
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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library
DocumentID: SABCP04554600
CollectionID: CTRG03-B1026
PublicationDate: 16780101
SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America
Notes: First ed. of the original, of which but few copies are known. Translated into Spanish in 1681 and then into English in 1684 (where the author's name appears as Esquemeling) and subsequently into French in 1686 (with the name written Oexmelin). The work went through numerous editions in its various versions and formed the foundation for many of the histories and romances of the buccaneers published during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Added, engr. t. p. P. 65-68 omitted in pagination; p. 29 and 75 erroneously numbered 19 and 57.
Collation: 3 v. in 1: ill. (some fold.), fold. maps; 19 cm
