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Sharp, Bartholomew
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6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description
- The voyages and adventures of Capt. Barth. Sharp and others, in the South Sea: being a journal of the same. Also Capt. Van Horn with his buccanieres surprizing of la Veracruz. To which is added the true relation of Sir Henry Morgan his expedition against the Spaniards in the West-Indies, and his taking Panama. London: for B.W., 1684
- paper, ink, leather
8vo (190 x 109 mm). A few leaves with minor staining to extreme fore-margin. Contemporary calf; rubbed, rebacked.
Literature
Wing A4315; Hill 40; Sabin 79781
Catalogue Note
first edition. "... For two and half years, Sharp's party of French and English buccaneers ranged up and down the western coast of South America, sacking and burning towns, capturing ships, ransoming and killing, often quarreling among themselves and gradually dwindling in number until it was no longer possible to carry on against the Spanish" (Hill).