Lelewel Joachim- Novosilców in Vilnius [first printing, insurgent edition, Warsaw 1831][one of the first printings concerning the Philomath movement].

Novosiltsow in Vilna in the school year 1823-1824 enclosed a note about the curatorship of Novosiltsow given to General Rosen by Onacewicz/ Warsaw 1831/ the authorship of the work is attributed to Joachim Lelewel, who only years later admitted to having committed the work ( Novosiltsow in Vilna, or the War of the Tsar with Youth, Children and Instruction, exception from the history of 1824. In: Polska odradzająca się, czyli dzieje polskie od roku 1795. 2nd ed. multiplied by footnotes. Bruxella 1843.)/ bound in half leather of the epoch/ 10x15.5cm/ p.120/ ownership stamps on the facing page, p.tit., 80 and the last page/ very good condition, paper repaired in two places, small loss of leather on the spine, small traces of staining on the side edges of the first three pages. A very nice piece.

One of the first publications documenting the history of the Philomaths, Philarets and other secret societies of the Mickiewicz period.

This booklet is mentioned by Adam Mickiewicz in a footnote to the prefacein his Dresden Dziady.

Very rare!

The book includes:

1.a description of Novosilcov's investigation in Vilnius and Lithuania in 1823-1824 (

2.the first reprint of the translation of the ukaz(the first comprehensive record not only of the factual history of the investigation, but also of the senator's narrative on the history of the Philomaths, Philarets and other secret societies then revealed in Lithuania)

3.a note by Ignacy Onacevich, a letter dated 1829 by a university historian from Vilna who was a friend of Lelewel, characterizing Novosilcov's rule there as superintendent after 1824

4.article; A Few Words on the Fate of Lithuanian Exiles, which appeared in the insurgent periodical Fenix.

, "In a word, the content of Novosilcov in Vilnius published in 1831 in insurgent Warsaw covers the period from the trial of the Philomaths, with its in-depth genesis (dating back to Napoleonic times), to the year of publication, A Few Words on the Fate of Lithuanian Exiles is in fact dated March 1831. Certainly, Lelewel wanted to link various facts from 1823-1824 to the November Uprising in this way, to document the genealogy of the insurrection, including Vilnius events during and after the trial of the Philomaths, under the curatorship of Novosilcov (Onacevich's note), and the fate of the exiled Philomaths in Russia. It is important that the author of Novosilcov in Vilnius was, on the one hand, the ambassador of Mickiewicz and the Philomaths in Warsaw in 1825-1829, so the passage devoted to the fate of Lithuanian exiles is not based on hearsay information, but on frequent correspondence contact (with Dashkevich, Mickiewicz, Malinowski, Malewski and others). On the other hand, someone well versed in the realities of Warsaw, a "co-creator of the intellectual life" - together with Mochnacki - of the capital of that time.''