Semple lisle (10 risultati)

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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Second Edition. xxii, [2] 382pp, bound in paper over boards, with the paper spine label intact, and deckled page edges. Penned ownership inside front cover "Henry Ellis Sheppard / May 9th / 1853" with bookplate "The John Rathbone Oliver Criminological Collection". Covers show paper peeling, lacking paper on upper/lower edges of spine, front cover starting to become loose, preliminary pages starting to become detached.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Quarto, [20 pages double column numbered 1009- 1028]; uncut as issued (stitching broken). A little dusty but in excellent, original state. Rare. Sessions Paper Number VII, Part II, separately issued. Semple was sentenced to be 'transported for seven years, beyond the seas'. He was released, however, on condition he left the country. We will advise postage costs and delivery times, which will vary from those quoted by ABE.…

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Second edition, after the first of 1799. The scarce memoirs of a great scoundrel and adventurer, "including a full account of the mutiny on the Lady Shore, in which he was being carried as a convict to New South Wales, and of the adventures of the landing party in their journey to Rio de Janeiro" (Ferguson). James George Semple, who laid claim to the extinct French title of Viscount Lisle, was born in 1759 in Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of a former excise man. In 1775 he left to serve in America, where he was captured in 1776 and soon released. Upon his return to Great Britain in 1777, Semple befriended novelist Eliza Gooch, who chronicled their meeting in her memoirs, "though," he writes, "not quite correctly" (p.3). In 1778, Semple departed for the Continent with the "notorious" Duchess of Kingston, whose goddaughter he had just married, and proceeded, he claims, to have accompanied Frederick the Great on his 1778 campaign, met with Catherine the Great, traveled with Prince Potemkin to the Crimea, and designed a uniform for the Russian Army. After additional travels in Denmark and Prussia, Semple returned to England and was arrested and sentenced to seven years' transportation for "obtaining goods by false pretenses" (DNB). His sentence was commuted with the provision that he leave England, and he soon found himself in Paris, serving on General Berruyer's staff and witnessing the execution of Louis XVI. Returning to England in 1795, Semple was arrested for defrauding tradesmen, imprisoned at Newgate, and transported to Australia on board the Lady Jane Shore, whose crew mutinied during the voyage. Semple and several others were permitted to leave the ship in a boat and made their way to South America, where further adventures ensued. In 1799, Semple arrived in Tangier, surrendered himself, and was sent back to England, where he was committed to Tothill Fields prison. The present narrative, published during Semple's imprisonment at Tothill Fields, appears to be the last the word heard of Semple, of whom "nothing further is known" by the DNB. FERGUSON 317. SABIN 41421. DNB XVII, p.1179. Original paper-covered boards, printed label. Boards lightly rubbed and soiled, spine and joints cracked and worn, label largely worn away. Occasional light foxing. Three bookplates (two armorial) affixed to front endpapers. Overall a very good copy, untrimmed. …

Containing a Faithful Narrative of his Alternate Vicissitudes of Splendor and Misfortune. Written by Himself. The Whole interspersed with Interesting Anecdotes and Authentic Accounts of Important Public Transactions. The Second Edition. Stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece. Offsetting from the portrait, light browning throughout, but overall very good in the publisher's boards, slightly rubbed and soiled, upper joint a little split towards the tail, some chipping of the spine at head and tail. xxii, errata leaf, 382pp. W. Stewart, Sabin 41421, "Includes his adventures in South America, description of the Province of Rio Grande &c."; Ferguson 317, "The autobiography of this celebrated adventurer, including a full account of the mutiny of the Lady Shore in which he was carried as a convict to New South Wales, and of the adventures of the landing party in their journey to Rio de Janeiro." Semple was the born in Ayrshire, the son of an exciseman, in 1776 he served briefly in America before being taken prisoner. He was "relieved early in 1777, by Lord Percy, whose retirement from the Army his country may justly regret, and Sir Peter Parker, then commander at Rhode Island. [He] was soon after wounded; and was in consequence sent home from New York, in the Bridget of Liverpool." He then was involved with Mrs. Eliza Gooch, the novelist - "My amour with Mrs. Gooch having been related by the lady herself, in her Memoirs, though not quite correctly, I Ieave as it is. " He then claims to have accompanied Frederick the Great in the campaign of 1778, to have been introduced the Catherine the Great, & ". to have accompanied Prince Potyomkin to the Crimea, and to have designed a uniform for the Russian Army." [ODNB] In 1784 he was arrested for obtaining goods under false pretences and sentenced, in 1786, to seven years transportation. Released on condition of quitting England he moved to Paris, where he witnessed the execution of Louis XVI, returning to England shortly afterwards to avoid arrest. In 1795, returning to his old ways, he was again sentenced to transportation "this time for defrauding tradesmen" [ibid.] His hopes of pardon being dashed, when scheduled to be shipped to Botany Bay, he melodramatically stabbed himself in Newgate - ". in my frenzy, I snatched up a round pointed breakfast knife, with which I made a blow at my breast; I struck too high, and the knife would not enter; but I repeated the stroke lower down, and plunged it to the handle in my body." - and subsequently went on hunger strike. Having recovered he was dispatched to Australia on the Lady Jane Shore. Despite Semple's warnings of unrest amongst the troops onboard, mutiny broke out but he was allowed to leave in a boat with several others who would not make a common cause with the mutineers. The party eventually landed in South America and after a series of almost credible adventures Semple made his way to Tangiers via Lisbon and Gibraltar and there surrendered himself to the British Minister. He was sent back to England and committed to Tothill Fields prison, where at the time of the publication of his autobiography he was still held. "Nothing further is known of him." [Iibid.] A very nice copy of this hard-to-obtain life of a notorious scoundrel.…