[PIRACY, HORSE RACING]. The Flying Post; or, Post-Master. Numb. 5997. London: August 3, 1732. Two 4to pages on one 4to laid-paper leaf. Woodcut initial. Approximately 351 x 228 mm. Toned, soiled, one margin edgeworn and chipped, “Halfpenny” inkstamp at lower corner of p. 1, small ink notation on p. 1. An early English newspaper with articles on piracy (“... I was weak enough to think, the Spanish Pyrates were more civil and obliging to the French and Dutch Traders, than to the English…”) and one on horse-racing (“The same Day [July 29 in Canterbury] the Races began on Barham Down, when the King’s Plate of 100 Guineas was won by a Horse call’d Diamond, no other starting against him. on Wednesday the Galloway Plate of 25 Guineas was won by Mr. Woodman’s Black Mare; and Mr. Oakley’s Gelding won the Stakes…”).