1858 Celebrated Robbers Banditti Pirates Hungary Afghan Bandits ROME India

A rare but highly interesting historical account of notorious robbers, bandits, and pirates from all over the world! Written by an unknown author, this work, ‘Lives and Exploits of the Most Celebrated Robbers’, includes sections on pirates, sketches of Greek and Roman bandits, Hungarian and Afghan robbers, and notorious murderer from India Triumbukjee!

This work, attributed to Charles MacFarlane, is undated, however, ads at the end of the work note works published in 1858-59. According to Wiesebron, MacFarlane wrote extensively about brigandage under the French and Italian states in Spain.

Item number: #4459

Price: $350

MacFARLANE, Charles [attrib.]

The Lives and exploits of the most celebrated robbers and banditti of all countries.

Philadelphia: G.G. Evans, [1858].

Details:

•Collation: Complete with all pages

o284p

oIllustrated with full-page engravings

•References: Wiesebron, Two Portuguese Bandits;

oWiesebron on authorship: “Although no author is indicated, this work is an American adaptation by Charles Macfarlane, published in 1833 under the title ‘The Lives and Exploits of Banditi and Robbers’. This reference was found in the catalogue of the Library of Congress, and so Macfarlane should be considered the author of this work.”

•Language: English

•Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure

•Size: ~7in X 5in (17.5cm x 12.5cm)

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