Piratas de la America
Subtitle: y luz à la defensa de las costas de Indias Occidentales. ...
By: Traducido de la lengua flamenca en española, por el Dor. de Buena-Maison, medico practico en la amplissima y magnifica ciudad de Amsterdam
Contributors: Bonne-Maison, Alonso de; Barrios, Miguel de, 1635-1701
Publisher: en casa de Lorenzo Struickman
Published: 1681
Place of publication: Impresso en Colonia Agrippina [Cologne, i.e. Amsterdam?]
Language: spa
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Buccaneers; Pirates; History
Work titles: Amerikaanse zeerovers
Notes: First edition of the Spanish translation, made from the original Dutch edition of 1678. This Spanish version is the source of the English translation first printed in 1684, and of the French translation first printed in 1686. The authors of these translations at second-hand were unfamiliar with the Dutch original and made rather free use of the Spanish version, "incorporating into their respective versions considerable additional matter, chiefly to bring into prominence the special merits of their compatriots, e.g. the French version embodying many exploits of the French filibusters not referred to by the Dutch author, while the English edition makes Morgan the principal hero of the story." (H. Powell, introd. to ed. of 1893)

Another contemporary edition with identical imprint issued in 1681 with the words "por el Dor. Alonso de Buena-Maison" on the title page and has 28 preliminary leaves (Church, E.D. Discovery, 667n, and Alden, 681/38)

"Descripción de las islas del mar Athlantico y de America. Por el capitan D. Miguel de Barrios", p. i-xvi, is in verse.

Signatures: pi1 [sec.]-⁵[sec.]⁴ (⁵[sec.]4 verso blank) ****² (****1 missigned ****3) *****⁴ (-*****4) ******⁻*******⁴ A-2D⁴ 2E⁴ (-2E4) 2F-2S⁴ 2T⁴ (-2T4)

Title page printed in red and black; woodcut printer's vignettes on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

The coat of arms of Pardiñas Villar de Francos is pictured on a folded plate bound to face p. [3], 1st count.

Medina, J.T. Bib. hispano-americana, 1714.

Church, E.D. Discovery, 667.

Brown, J.C. Cat., 1482-1700, II:1218.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 681/39.