HACKE, William, editor. A Collection of Original Voyages. London, 1699. FIRST EDITION.
8vo (190 x 115 mm). 3 engraved folding maps by Herman Moll, 3 engraved plates (2 folding); 3pp. publishers' advertisements. (Minor marginal browning to text and plates primarily to upper margin.) Contemporary panelled calf (rebacked preserving endpapers).FIRST EDITION of Hacke's important compilation of source material relating to 16th century buccaneers. "The buccaneer Ambrose Cowley was well known for his harassing ventures against the Spaniards in the West Indies. In his voyaging into the Pacific, he sailed further south than any of his predecessors, and he named some of the Galapagos Islands. Bartholomew Sharp... plundered and looted all along the west coast of South America and weakened Spanish domination in those seas by capturing some important maps in 1680, from which Hacke later made several highly important manuscript atlases. John Wood served on John Narbrough's expedition to the west coast of South America and gave an account of the Patagonians" (Hill). The editor, William Hacke, was most likely not the buccaneer he claimed to be, but as a chartmaker in Wapping he must certainly have known the British pirates of his day. Alden & Landis 699/96; Hill 741; Sabin 29473; Scott 82; Wing H-168.
