Journal Du Voyage Fait A La Med de Sud, Avec Les Flibustiers de l'Amerique en 1684. & années suivantes. Par le Sieur Raveneau de Lussan.
Paris: Chez Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1689, first edition, 12mo, [16], 1- 448, [3], bound in full contemporary calf, spine gilt, red leather spine label, some wear and scuffing to binding, spine ends and outer hinges, corners and extremities occasional staining and foxing, small hole in first leaf of text (pp. 1-2) affecting several letters of text, one leaf (pp. 135-36) with portion of blank margin torn away, just missing text, modern ownership signature on first blank leaf else a good copy, complete with the privilege and errata leaf and the final imprint page.
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First edition of this celebrated and classic account of a young Parisians venture into buccaneering in the West Indies and along the Pacific Coast of South America. The author went to sea to earn money to pay his debts at home and the current war between France and Spain offered him an excellent opportunity to join the raiding parties who were preying on the Spanish trade. He spent several months raiding the Spanish colonies in the West Indies, and several years in the Pacific attacking the Spanish settlements from Chile north to Guatemala. According to his own account Raveneau de Lussan was quite devout he never allowed his crew to molest priests or nuns, nor to sack churches. After taking a Spanish town, he and his men attended Mass before beginning their looting. This work was later incorprated into Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin's account of the Buccaneers of America, in both the French and English editions. "He details both the romantic and the bleak sides of the buccaneering profession, interwoven with colorful descriptions of the natives of the region and a clear picture of the Spanish colonies of the Pacific." - Hill, p. 549. Sabin 67983; Palau 248536; F. S. Streeter Sale, 432.
