't Begin midden en eynde der zee-rooveryen van den alder-fameusten zee-roover Claes G. Compaen van Oostzanen in Kennemer-landt. Vervattende sijn wonderlijcke vreemde en lands schadelijcke drijf-tochten. Waer in vertoont wordt hoe hy met weyningh schepen de zee onveyligh gemaeckt een ongelooflijcke buyt en groot getal van schepen van alle landen gerooft ende afgeloopen heeft.
1697réf. ABC_47615Amsterdam 1697. 8vo. widow of Gijsbert de Groot Later greyish-brown wrappers. With a large woodcut illustration of a Dutch merchant ship on the title page three woodcut illustrations in the text including 1 repeat of the title page illustration and one large decorated woodcut initial. 1 1 blank 4 42 pp. Very rare 17th-century edition in the original Dutch of the history of the famous Dutch privateer Claes Compaen 1587-1660. He was born at Oostzaan in the Netherlands and started his career as a merchant but soon became undoubtedly the most daring and notorious Dutch pirate of his day especially active around 1620. For three years he hijacked ships in the English Channel the Mediterranean the Caribbean and off the coasts of Africa America and the West-Indies. The present story was first printed in 1659 and ran through more than a dozen editions to 1803 all with the main text set in a textura gothic type in the later editions a sign that it was a popular book for a lower-class audience. All editions are quite rare but especially the 17th-century ones thus a very rare edition of one of the most famous pirates.With the bookplate of Buijnsters-Smets on the inside of the front wrapper. The spine is somewhat damaged internally somewhat browned foxed and water stained the paper of some leaves is quite thin leaving some holes not affecting the text. Otherwise in good condition.l STCN 104026774 2 copies; WorldCat 1230938838 1 copy 966965894 1 copy; cf. Buisman 114; Muller America 2131; Scheepers II 1026; Waller 218 all ed. 1662; Muller 839/840 other eds. LITERATURE & LINGUISTICS MARITIME HISTORY Dutch Literature Mutiny Piracy & Shipwrecks unknown
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