RAVENEAU DE LUSSAN: Buccaneer of the Spanish Main and early French filibuster of the Pacific. A translation into English of his Journal of a Voyage into the South Seas in 1684 and the following years with the Filibusters.
by Lussan, Raveneau de. Translated and edited by Marguerite Eyer WIlbur
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- Hardcover
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- Small stain to front free endpaper, bookplate to front fixed endpaper, else near fine in moderately edgeworn dustjacket/good
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Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Small stain to front free endpaper, bookplate to front fixed endpaper, else near fine in moderately edgeworn dustjacket/good. Octavo, original burgundy cloth; 303 pp., frontispiece and 8 plates with tissue guards.
First English translation of the French text originally published in London in 1702. This copy with the Barnes & Noble dustjacket, as described in Clark and Brunet #151: "In 1940 Barnes and Noble purchased 461 copies at one-half cost. A dust jacket was prepared . . . at the bottom of the [jacket] front cover and spine 'Barnes & Noble, Inc. is printed." Total edition was 966 copies.
First English translation of the French text originally published in London in 1702. This copy with the Barnes & Noble dustjacket, as described in Clark and Brunet #151: "In 1940 Barnes and Noble purchased 461 copies at one-half cost. A dust jacket was prepared . . . at the bottom of the [jacket] front cover and spine 'Barnes & Noble, Inc. is printed." Total edition was 966 copies.
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- Title
- RAVENEAU DE LUSSAN: Buccaneer of the Spanish Main and early French filibuster of the Pacific. A translation into English of his Journal of a Voyage into the South Seas in 1684 and the following years with the Filibusters.
- Author
- Lussan, Raveneau de. Translated and edited by Marguerite Eyer WIlbur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Small stain to front free endpaper, bookplate to front fixed endpaper, else near fine in moderately edgeworn dustjacket
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Arthur H. Clark
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland
- Date Published
- 1930
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