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
- 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- Unpublished 18th-century French novel of the adventures of Auguste and Faufette on four imaginary islands after a shipwreck, modeled on Gulliver's Travels.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).
- 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
- Creator
- Torrilhon, J. Auguste
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- romances (medieval narratives)
- Manuscripts, European
- Date
- 1750
- Language
- French
- Subject
- Voyages, Imaginary -- Early works to 1800
- Collection
- Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund
- Extent
- 4 volumes (66, 84, 87, 80 leaves) : paper ; 180 x 115 mm bound to 190 x 125 mm
- 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.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): t.1
- The Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund Home Page
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): t.2
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): t.3
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): t.4
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 2195
- 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.
- Rights
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