Medieval History

The Life and Crimes of John Ward, the Most Infamous Privateer of His Time, b&w illustrations from contemporary engravings, notes, bibliography & index, xiv & 225 pp, black boards in d/w, fine condition, Sutton Publishing (Stroud, Gloucestershire) 2006

23.4 x 15 cm, 510g, ISBN 0 75094 350 5

A sailor in the English navy, in 1602 he stole a vessel from Portsmouth Harbour and turned to piracy.  He died in 1622, not fighting, but of bubonic plague.

See the description (below) from the dustwrapper flap.