[PALTOCK, ROBERT]. The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, A Cornish Man: Relating particularly, his Shipwreck near the South Pole: his wonderful Passage thro' a subterraneous Cavern into a kind of new World: his there meeting with a Gawry or flying Woman, whose Life he preserved, and afterwards married her; his extraordinary Conveyance to the Country of Glumms and Gawrys, or Men and Woman that fly... Dublin: George Faulkner, 1751. 6 engraved plates (one folding) by Boitard and one drawing tipped-in. 2 volumes, 12mo, calf, spines elaborately gilt, joints and edges chipping and splitting; a few leaves trimmed close, affecting text of some plates. FIRST DUBLIN EDITION. The plates "clearly and distinctly representing the structure and mechanism of the Wings of the Glums and Gawrys, and the manner in which they use them either to swim or fly," Bleiler, p. 162 (for the London edition printed same year). See Sabin 58394.

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[PALTOCK, ROBERT]. The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, A Cornish Man: Relating particularly, his Shipwreck near the South Pole: his wonderful Passage thro' a subterraneous Cavern into a kind of new World: his there meeting with a Gawry or flying Woman, whose Life he preserved, and afterwards married her; his extraordinary Conveyance to the Country of Glumms and Gawrys, or Men and Woman that fly... Dublin: George Faulkner, 1751. 6 engraved plates (one folding) by Boitard and one drawing tipped-in. 2 volumes, 12mo, calf, spines elaborately gilt, joints and edges chipping and splitting; a few leaves trimmed close, affecting text of some plates. FIRST DUBLIN EDITION. The plates "clearly and distinctly representing the structure and mechanism of the Wings of the Glums and Gawrys, and the manner in which they use them either to swim or fly," Bleiler, p. 162 (for the London edition printed same year). See Sabin 58394.