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This vanitas still-life depicts a volume of the Bucaniers of America, a globe, books, an address to the commons, a candle, a quill, a key and a pocketwatch, all upon a table. Collier repeated this successful composition on several occasions.He included in this still-life an edition of the recently published Bucaniers of America. Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin's Bucaniers of America was one of the most popular books of the late seventeenth-century.
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