Veillem (6 results)

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Gebunden. Condition: New. KlappentextThe 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, G.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Cambridge University LibraryN042038Lui même = Veillem. With a half-title. The imprint is false; printed at The Hague.Londres [i.e. The Hague]: chez H. Scheurleer, F.Z. & Compagnie, 1766. 206p., plates; 12°.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Cambridge University LibraryN042038Lui même = Veillem. With a half-title. The imprint is false; printed at The Hague.Londres [i.e. The Hague]: chez H. Scheurleer, F.Z. & Compagnie, 1766. 206p., plates; 12°.

Second Edition. in contemporary mottled calf, both joints very weak but holding, triple gilt filet to covers, flat spine ruled in compartments with simple sunburst tooling, dark morocco label lettered in gilt, the front cover cracking, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, with the contemporary bookseller?s advertisement of Rufin, Paris, on the front pastedown. Small 12mo (128 x 80 mm), pp, [iv], 274, with a half title, vignette head-piece at start of text, A very scarce little memoir novel about a foundling, which seems to have gone almost entirely unnoticed. First published in 1766, also under a ?Londres? imprint but with the additional, ?Chez H. Scheurleer, F.Z. & Compagnie?, it is listed under the authorship of ?Veillem?, the name of the hero and a near anagram of ?lui-meme? Bibliographically, it seems to have remained below the radar, even escaping Martin, Mylne and Frautschi?s very comprehensive bibliography of the French novel. Curiously, as well as the two eighteenth century French editions, there was a Russian translation by Nikolai Ivanov published in Moscow in 1782 as Novyi naidenysh?, ili Shchastlivyi Gollandet?s?: zapiski vedeny im samim. We have not identified a contemporary English translation - or any other translations - but that is not to say that there were none. Narrated in the first person, the author-hero, writing at the age of thirty, has always been philosophical about his unknown parentage but now that he enjoys good fortune he is more keen than ever to discover his parents so that he might relieve them of any distress they might be suffering. His earliest memory dates from when he was three or four years old, when his mother - birth or adoptive, he does not know - took him by boat to Rotterdam where the two spent the night in a hotel. In the morning, she was gone, never to return. Rescued by a lady staying in the next room, she takes him home to Amsterdam where he is raised with her children, Fréderic and Sophie, with whom naturally he falls in love. Guarded by Fabri, a strict but rather vain governess, Veillem sets out to flatter her in order to spend time with his beloved Sophie. Things get a little out of hand when the governess declares her love for him and suggests a prompt marriage, something she assumes with his uncertain birth will be an honour to him. Realising that it will be much harder now for him to see Sophie, he writes to her proposing a midnight meeting in the garden. Naturally, Fabri intercepts the letter, alerts Sophie as to its contents and then snitches on them to Sophie?s mother, Veillem?s benefactor and foster-mother, who hides behind a tree with Fabri and hears all. Furious at her involvement in the intrigue, the mother promptly sacks Fabri, who leaves the house vowing vengeance, but is surprisingly sympathetic to Veillem, whose respectful addresses to her daughter reassure her as to his intentions and his honourable character. Sophie?s father, however, is more concerned with Veillem?s obscure birth, and decrees that he is sent to India, with their financial support and contacts, in order to make his fortune while time dissolves the love between the two youngsters. A few days before he leaves, however, an assassin sent by Fabri attacks him on a lonely road; he draws his sword but in defending himself, kills his assailant. Instead, therefore, of setting sail for the Indies with his foster family?s blessing to seek his fortune, he is forced to flee the country and begin a new life in France. A contemporary bookseller?s label pasted to the front pastedown states: ?Au Bas-Breton, chez Ruffin, à Paris, rue Thibotaudé, no. 6, près le Pont-Neuf. Un assortiment de Livres d?occasion, et Abonnement de lecture; vend et achète toutes sortes de Livres, au plus juste prix. Par autorisation. [etc]. Fait des envois en province? ESTC t116265, listing British Library and Munich only (and of the 1766 edition, ESTC n42038, at Cambridge and Miami only). Not in MMF, Gay or Summers.

Londres, 1786. Petit in-12. [iv]274 pp. Veau granité, triple filet sur plats, dos lisse doré avec pièce de titre maroquin vert, tranches dorées. Avec vignette. (petite déchirure marginale a p.75) "Je ne sais si un hasard heureux me découvrira un jour ceux à qui je dois mon origine; mais j'ai déja atteint ma trentieme année, & je suis aussi peu éclairé sur ma naissance, que si j'étois tombé du ciel en terre. Ai-je des parens? N'en ai-je pas? Suis-je l'Enfant à quelqu'un? ou ne suis-je l'Enfant à personne? " ESTC: Lui-même = Veillem [Willem?]. Possibly printed on the continent. 2nd edition, a first was published 'A Londres, Chez H.Scheurleer, F.Z. (=The Hague)' in 1766.