Piratas de la America
Subtitle: y luz à la defensa de las costas de Indias Occidentales.
By: Dedicado a Don Bernardino Antonio de Pardiñas, Villar-de Francos ... Por el zelo y cuydado de Don Antonio Freyre ... Tr. de la lengua flamenca en española, por el Dor. Alonso de Buena-Maison ...
Contributors: Freyre, Antonio, ed.; Bonne-Maison, Alonso de, tr.; Barrios, Miguel de, 1635-1701.
Publisher: en casa de L. Struickman
Published: 1681
Place of publication: Impresso en Colonia Agrippina
Language: spa
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Morgan, Henry, Sir, 1635?-1688; L'Olonnais, 1630-1671; Buccaneers -- Early works to 1800; Pirates -- Early works to 1800; Spanish Main -- Early works to 1800; West Indies -- History -- 17th century
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
In three parts.
Title in red and black; on verso of t.-p., the arms of Pardiñas Villar de Francos; engr. vignette (p. 20).
"Descripción de las islas del mar Athlantico y de America. Por el capitan D. Miguel de Barrios, in verse: p. i-xvi.
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)