Pirate Treasures from the Burns Library An Exhibit of Maps and Books

Histories

Effigies et Nomina

Effigies et Nomina: quorundam e Societate Iesu, qui pro fide vel Pietate sunt iter fecti ab anno 1549 ad 1607. Rome, 1608.

A very early, if not the first, Jesuit martyrology, its engravings are framed with red ink borders; each portrait depicts how, when, and where a Jesuit died. In this example, Huguenot pirates murder Jesuits.
Raveneau de Lussan (1663-) was a French filibuster. In My Pirate Library, Philip Gosse describes this title as a “rare and charming little book” and says of de Lussan, “one of the religious pirates, and he never allowed a Spanish town to be plundered until his crew had attended Mass in the Cathedral. He was also a great “ladies’ man.”

deLussan

de Lussan, Raveneau. Journal du Voyage Fait à la Mer de Sud avec les Filibustiers de l’Amérique, en 1684 & années suivantes. Paris, 1690.

Charlesvoix

Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier De.. Histoire De L’Isle Espagnole Ou De S. Domingue: Ecrite Particulierement Sur Des Memoires Manuscrits Du P. Jean-Baptiste Le Pers … Tome second. Paris: Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin …, 1731.

French Jesuit Pierre-François-Xavier Charlevoix, SJ (1682-1761), wrote narratives of his travels to Japan, Paraguay and Santo Domingo. Here, he comments on the practice of piracy in the Caribbean.

A Book of the Continuation of Forreign Passages. That is, of the peace made between this common-wealth, & that of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, with all the articles of that peace. Apr. 5, 1654. London.

Jinkins

Jinkins, Captain Charles. Spanish Insolence Corrected by English Bravery: Being an Historical Account of the Many Signal Naval Achievements obtained by the English over the Spaniards from 1350 to the Present Time. London: Printed for R. Thomas, 1739.

LeSage

Le Sage, M. Les Adventures de Monsieur Robert Chevalier dit de Beauchene, Capitane de Filibustiers dans la Nouvelle-France. Maestricht: Dufour and Roux, 1780.

Archenholz

Archenholz, Johann Wilhelm Von, and Mason, George, Tr. The History of the Pirates, Free-booters, or Buccaneers of America. London: Printed for J. Stratford, and T. and R. Hughes, 1807.

Gosse, Philip. The Pirates’ Who’s Who, Giving the Particulars of the lives and deaths of the Pirates and Buccaneers. London: Dulau and Company, 1924.

Dampier, Exquemelin and Johnson - Influential Pirates
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