Collectif - L'Amérique ou Le mercure Ameriquain - 1678

Small in-12 of 268 pp. , contemporary brown calf, decorated (rubbed) ribbed spine
Rare first edition (Leclerc 410 - SABIN 56094) . "Collection of three fictional tales of piracy in the Americas: History of Don Diego de Rivera (pp. 4 to 109) - History of Mont-Val (pp. 110 to 177) - The destiny of man; or The adventures of don Bartelimi de la Cueba, Portuguese (pp. 178 to 267) "Significantly, these fictional stories appear in the same year and the same place as the greatest classic on the pirates of the Caribbean: The Tale of the Adventurers, published under the name of Exquemelin in 1686, quickly became a classic on the filibuster. And yet we have never succeeded in reconstructing its development: published first in Dutch (1678) , then in Spanish (1681) and in English (1684) , it is the work of a surgeon of of French origin who led the life of a buccaneer from 1668 to 1672 and served as chief surgeon on a Dutch warship in 1674. Rather than resuming the textological problem of the work of which we do not know if it was written in French or Dutch, I decided to compare the first French edition to a work of fiction published anonymously in 1678, by two different publishers: Nouvelles de l'Amérique, or le Mercury american. Two of the three short stories are so similar to the autobiographical passages in the History of the Adventurers that one might wonder if the author is not Exquemelin himself. What interests me here is not the authorship of the two works, but their relationship to reality or, if you prefer, the processes of fictionalization of historical reality that they implement, and that I will try to identify through the study of the narrative perspective, the actualization of the characters and the space represented
Rare work, good general condition, some glass holes at the bottom of the pages
Missing 1 sheet page 5/6