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SWIFT, JONATHAN. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver. London: Printed for Benjamin Motte 1726. 2 vols., 8vo, 189 x 119mm. (7 7/16 x 4 5/8in.), eighteenth-century speckled calf, old rebacking and endpapers replaced, corners worn, Plate I just cropped touching a rule border, F8 in vol. II with small repair to upper inner blank corner, browned at edges throughout, occasional staining, brown morocco case. FIRST EDITION, Teerink's "A" edition with the frontispiece portrait in vol. I in second state (with legend around oval frame), G6 and 2E8 in vol. II are cancels, engraved portrait, 5 engraved maps and one engraved diagram. Grolier English 42; PMM 185; Rothschild 2104-6; Teerink 289.

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SWIFT, JONATHAN. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver. London: Printed for Benjamin Motte 1726. 2 vols., 8vo, 189 x 119mm. (7 7/16 x 4 5/8in.), eighteenth-century speckled calf, old rebacking and endpapers replaced, corners worn, Plate I just cropped touching a rule border, F8 in vol. II with small repair to upper inner blank corner, browned at edges throughout, occasional staining, brown morocco case. FIRST EDITION, Teerink's "A" edition with the frontispiece portrait in vol. I in second state (with legend around oval frame), G6 and 2E8 in vol. II are cancels, engraved portrait, 5 engraved maps and one engraved diagram. Grolier English 42; PMM 185; Rothschild 2104-6; Teerink 289.

Provenance: Phil Lloyd, eighteenth-century ink signature on each title-page. (2)