Boston: George Barrie, 1894. Color photogravure. Image measures 12" x 9 1/2" Lovely color print after the painting "Commandant and Warrant Officers, 1805" by Hugh Wittler Ditzler. It depicts the Dey of Algeria signing a treaty with the United States during the Barbary Wars, which entailed a series of treaties to protect and secure American merchant ships from pirates on the northern African coast of the Mediterranean. More

Madrid: Manini Hermanos, 1855. Novel Historica. 10 color lithograph plates. 953, [3]pp. 4to, 1/2 contemporary leather; (small dampstain in margins of several pp., scattered light foxing, not affecting plates), decorative edges. Madrid: Manini Hermanos, 1855. First Edition in Spanish. Very good . Palau III, p. 93. More

London: tegg, 1837. 4 steel engravings, 16mo, full brown calf, ornately gilt spine, all edges gilt, inner dentelles, hinges a bit dry. London: Thomas Tegg, 1837. Very good (+). More

New York: Garden City Publishing Co., 1931. Illustrated in color and in black and white by Frank E. Schoonover. 317 pages. 8vo, blue cloth with inlaid pictorial label. New York: Garden City Publishing Co., (1931). Some edgewear and toning. Very good. More

New York: Macmillan, 1923. xxvi, 619pp. 8vo, original red cloth, cloth lightly soiled, ex-lib, otherwise very good. New York: Macmillan, 1923. Ex libris with the embossed stamp on the title page margin of the Peabody Museum of Salem. More

London: Navarre Society, 1926. Frontispiece, many black & white illustrations. 5 volumes. Thick 8vos, red cloth with ornately gilt spines (one spot on cover of volume 1 and tiny hole o spine of volume 4) pages untrimmed. London: Privately Printed for the Navarre Society, 1926. Near Fine. This work is "not just a bare recital of grisly facts but a book fraught with the romance and color of human lives, which if not always of the most exalted, are certainly..... More

London: Morden, Robert. Miniature map. Uncolored engraving. Sheet measures 7.75" x 6.25". Beautiful miniature map of the Barbary Coast in northern Africa dating to circa 1687. Divided in two sections, the top section features a map of West Barbary including the coast of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. The bottom section features a map of East Barbary and covers from Libya to Egypt and the Nile Delta. Beautifully details the Barbary Coast which was at the time known for the Barbary..... More

illus. 4to, cloth, d.w. Fordham UP, 1992. vg Presentation copy. Also includes parts on Adolph Esmit and Gabriel Milan, both Governors of St. Thomas. More

Rouen: Francois Vaultier, 1678. 267pp. + 1 page from the publisher. 24mo, 18th century or early nineteenth century 1/2 calf with gilt spine and marbled boards, head of spine and edges of corners very lightly worn, several pages cropped on top margin, bottom margins throughout are lightly soiled, later annotations on margins of title page, preface, and page 266., bottom margin lacking on last page of text, with a slight loss to letters in two words of the publisher's ad..... More

London: J. Seller. Miniature map. Copper plate engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 4 3/4" x 5 3/4". This charming miniature map of the Kingdoms of Tesset, Darha and Segelomess covers the northwestern part of Africa includes Morocco and parts of modern day Western Sudan, Algeria and Mauritania. Depicts part of the Barbary Coast including the Canary Islands. Incredibly detailed, the map notes several important cities, towns, waterways and beautifully rendered topography. During this time, the Barbary Pirates operated in..... More

Traduits par Monsieur De Montirat . folding map of Mexico and Central America, (map is beginning to separate from binding and is repaired on back). 398pp. 18mo, contemporary calf; (spine and edges worn, some pp. dampstained). Paris: Claude Cellier, 1706. First Edition in French. Author was a surgeon who joined other buccaneers on a voyage to Panama. They went inland and captured the town of Santa Maria. They then sailed the Pacific as far south as the Juan Fernandez Islands..... More