Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin
Nouvelles de l'Amerique ou Le Mercure Americain
Ou sont contenues trois histoires veritables arrivees de notre temps
Rouen: Francois Vaultier; 1678
First Edition
Rare 3 novels with pirate themes in one volume.
The titles are:
"Histoire de Don Diego de Rivera,
"Histoire de Mont-Val,"
and "Le destin de l'Homme, ou les Avantures de Don Bartelimi de la Cueba, Portugais."
- "A collection of three love-tales. The heroes are buccaneers and filibusters." -
Sabin 56094.
Original leather binding, worn, spine with raised bands
Lacks 2 leaves (pp. 5/6 and 19/20)
Size 3 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches
Text in French

Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin (also spelled Esquemeling, Exquemeling, or Oexmelin) (c. 1645–1707) was a French, Dutch, or Flemish writer best known as the author of one of the most important sourcebooks of 17th-century piracy, first published in Dutch as De Americaensche Zee-Roovers, in Amsterdam, by Jan ten Hoorn, in 1678.
Born about 1645, it is likely that Exquemelin was a native of Honfleur, France, who on his return from buccaneering settled in Holland, possibly because he was a Huguenot.
In 1666 he was engaged by the French West India Company and went to Tortuga, where he worked as an indentured servant for three years.
There he enlisted with the buccaneers, in particular with the band of Henry Morgan, whose confidante he was, probably as a barber-surgeon, and remained with them until 1674.
Shortly afterwards he returned to Europe and settled in Amsterdam where he qualified professionally as a surgeon, his name appearing on the 1679 register of the Dutch Surgeons' Guild.
However, he was later once again in the Caribbean as his name appears on the muster-roll as a surgeon in the attack on Cartagena in 1697.


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