First edition in English of Exquemelin's illustrated history of famous pirates, the central primary source on the subject during its most famous era, with the continuation by Ringrose.

Uncommon account of the life of a South African ostrich farmer near the turn of the twentieth century.

First edition of these travel writings by the father of American landscape architecture, with his impressions of England's inns, interiors, pastries, ports, prostitutes, and public gardens, with particular attention to Birkinhead Park, which impressed him greatly.