Pirates and Piracy 500 objects on 415 plates

500 objects on 415 plates illustrate the remarkable variety of decorative ironwork from Roman times to the first part of the nineteenth century in this inexpensive Dover edition of all the illustrative material from the 1924 French catalogue of the extensive collection in the Le Secq de Tounelles Museum in Rouen

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Pirates and Piracy 500 objects on 415 platesPirates and acts of piracy were not limited to the Caribbean Sea and the 16th and 17th centuries, as is commonly thought, but ranged far across time and place. Men of adventure who took to pirating in classical times around the Mediterranean are featured in these stirring true tales of high seas treachery. Gripping narratives of corsairs, freebooters, and privateersfrom the Vikings in their longships to the pirates of the Levant and the China Seascome