Grand voyages dans quatres petites illes inconnues, ou, Les aventures extraordinaires mais pourtant veridiques d'Auguste et Faufette et ses compagnons de fortunes et d'infortunes

Alternate Title:

Grand voyages dans quatres petites illes inconnues; Aventures extraordinaires mais pourtant veridiques d'Auguste et Faufette et ses compagnons de fortunes et d'infortunes

Name:

Torrilhon, J. Auguste

Date:

1750

Description:

Unpublished 18th-century French novel of the adventures of Auguste and Faufette on four imaginary islands after a shipwreck, modeled on Gulliver's Travels. Numerous edits have been made in the text. An inscription on a front flyleaf in the first volume reads, "Le Guliver fracais [sic] par J. August Torrilhon" (t. 1 p. iv).

Language:

French

Provenance:

Probably handled by Librairie A. Cisneros (Bordeaux), late 19th or early 20th century (smudged oval ink stamp on front cover and offset of torn-out ink stamp on p. iv of volume 1; oval ink stamp covered with leather on front cover of volume 4).; Sold at auction by Vermot & associés (Paris), 17 November 2022, lot 284.; Sold by Bonnefoi livres anciens (Paris), catalogue 218 (2023), number 198.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): t.1: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3ms3m29b; The Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366241; Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): t.2: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3c825g08; Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): t.3: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p37h1fn70

Subject:

Voyages, Imaginary -- Early works to 1800

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); Romances; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

4 volumes (66, 84, 87, 80 leaves) : paper; 180 x 115 mm bound to 190 x 125 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; French.; Title from the title pages of the first two volumes (t. 1 p. v, t. 2 p. v); Table of contents: Tome 1: De l'ille [sic] unique, ou, Auguste et Feufette -- Tome 2: L'ille des invisibles, ou, Les hommes bleus -- Tome 3: L'ille des gastronomes, ou, Les Godems -- Tome 4: L'ille déserte, ou, Les métamorphoses.; Pagination: Paper, 66, 84, 87, 80 leaves; original pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper center; tome 1, [i-vi], 1-9, [i-ii], 10-116, [117-124]; tome 2, [i-vi], 1-157, [158-162]; tome 3, [i-ii], 1-167, [168-172]; tome 4, 1-157, [158-160]. Collation cannot be determined, as sewing is rarely visible.; Layout: Written in 19-23 long lines; no margins; octavo format.; Script: Written in cursive script.; Binding: Contemporary (18th-century) leather; simple gilt tooling and gilt spines with volume numbers; gilt spine title Voy[ages] d'Augus[te] et Faufett[e] (volume 4); marbled endpapers (volume 2).; Origin: Written in France, probably in the second half of the 18th century.; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 2195

Collection:

Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund