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Pirate History 1718 Commodore Porter

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Pirate History 1718 Commodore Porter
The History of the Pirates, Containing the Lives of É Noted Pirate Captains, etc...also an Account of the Piracies and Cruelties of John Augur, et. al, who were tried, condemned and executed at Nassau, New-Providence, on the 10th of December, 1718. 1st Edition-later printing, HARTFORD: Henry Benton, 1829 (1825). 16 mo. Full-leather bound moderately worn. 283 pages with frontis illustration depicting an ax & hammer fight aboard the ship. Contents are Very Good with very scattered foxing. Howes notes a "possible" earlier edition however this is the earliest Verifiable Edition albiet in the later printing. Very Scarce. and Uncommon thus.