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Piratas de la America, : y luz à la defensa de las costas de Indias Occidentales. ...

Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier), Bonne-Maison, Alonso de, Barrios, Miguel de, 1635-1701 · 1681 · Impresso en Colonia Agrippina [Cologne, i.e. Amsterdam?] : en casa de Lorenzo Struickman · 16 pictures

Piratas de la America is a 1681 Spanish-language account of buccaneer raids in the Caribbean, attributed to Alexandre Exquemelin and printed under a Cologne imprint, likely Amsterdam, for readers interested in the Indies. The pictures include a framed heraldic cartouche with ribbon scrollwork, a woodcut floral ornament with fruit and leaves, and a woodland scene of men in combat labelled for L'Olonnais, giving a designer period decorative borders, cartouches and dramatic battle figures.

Morgan, Henry, Sir, 1635?-1688 · L'Olonnais, 1630-1671 · Buccaneers · Pirates · Imprint 1681

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