John Esquemeling
The Buccaneers of America: A True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of Late Years upon the Coasts of the West Indies by the Buccaneers of Jamaica and Tortuga (both English and French). Wherein Are Contained More Especially the Unparalleled Exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, Our English Jamaican Hero, Who Sacked Porto Bello, Burnt Panama, etc.
London/New York: Swan Sonnenschein & Co./Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. xxxv/508 pages.
Antique volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.5", is bound in red cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and gilt top edge of text block. Also on spine is a pictorial design in gold depicting a buccaneer. Book shows moderate wear, with light soiling to covers and vertical ripple along fore edge of rear cover. Binding is sound. Pages 280 and 281 display offsetting from laid in newspaper clipping. Interior is otherwise clean and without markings. All called-for plates are present, including frontispiece portrait of Henry Morgan. Fold-out map is well preserved. 
Translation of one of the most important sourcebooks of 17th-century piracy, first published in Dutch as "De Americaensche Zee-Roovers", in Amsterdam, by Jan ten Hoorn, in 1678.