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[PIRATES]. EXQUEMELIN, John [Alexandre Olivier (1645-1707)]. Bucaniers of America: Or, a True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of late Years upon the Coasts of The West-Indies by the Bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga, Both English and French… London: Printed for William Crooke, 1684. Small 4to. Illustrated with 8 engraved plates, 3 of which are folding (lacks the frontispiece of Morgan). Approximately 8 x 6”. [xii], 1-47 [actually 55], [1, blank], 1-80, 1-84, [12, Table] pp. Bound in later full pebbled morocco, boards ruled in blind, spine tooled, and lettered in gilt in compartments (binding quite worn, text begins with title-page, title-page worn and torn with marginal repairs and restoration, text generally worn, toned, soiled, p. 43 in part III chipped at lower corner with some textual loss and restoration, folding plate for part III chap. 6 is backed on linen, text trimmed a bit close, but with little to no loss to text. Fair. THE SECOND [ENGLISH] EDITION, “Corrected and Inlarged with two additional relations, viz. the one of Captain Cook, and the other of Captain Sharp.” Robart [sic] Smith’s copy with his ownership inscription (dated 1753) on verso of title-page and with his occasional ink notes throughout. Exquemelin’s famed book on the pirates and sea-rovers ignited an enormous interest in these ne’er-do wells in the public imagination. It was so popular that this second revised English edition was published just a few months after the first. This volume is sometimes offered with Basil Ringrose’s second volume (1685, not present here). Sabin 23479 (the first edition).