Journal du Voyage fait a la Mer de Sud, avec les Flibustiers de l'Amerique

Author: Raveneau de Lussan, Sieur de (1663-170?)Year: 1690Publisher: Chez Jean Baptiste CoignardPlace: ParisDescription:[16]+272 pages. Duodecimo (5 1/4" x 3 1/4") bound in full later calf with blind-stamped ruled edges with red label to spine in gilt lettering. (Hill 1423. European American 690/104; Palau 248537; Sabin 67984) Second edition.Raveneau de Lussan (born 1663 in Paris) was a French buccaneer. He belonged to a noble but impoverished family, and embraced a military career at the age of 14. In 1679 he embarked for Santo Domingo in search of fortune, but was unsuccessful, and joined the buccaneers under Laurens de Graaf, sailing from Petit-Goâve, 22 November 1684. He soon left de Graaf at the head of a band of his own, and in 1685 pillaged the town of El Realejo. In 1686 his band took part in the capture of Grenada, and, not finding the booty they expected, set fire to the city. After this Lussan separated from the English pirates, but he joined them again for the purpose of a