[Pointis, Jean Bernard Louis]:

$3,750 · Offered by William Reese Company

RELATION DE L'EXPEDITION DE CARTHAGENE, FAITE PAR LES FRANÇ OIS EN M.DC.XCVII. The first edition of this first-hand account relating the French attack on Carthagena, organized and led by the Baron de Pointis. The expedition left Brest on Jan. 9, 1697, stopping at Santo Domingo to pick up Jean Baptiste Ducasse, then governor of Tortuga, and some six hundred buccaneers. After a ferocious fight the city capitulated to the French buccaneers on May 3, and Pointis was able to secure at least $15,000,000 in booty. The six hundred pirates pillaged and burned the city for three days and Pointis emerged triumphant. The large folding map depicts the southeastern Caribbean. Only three copies are recorded at auction (including this one) in the last thirty years.

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