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[RASPE, Rudolph Erich (1737-1794)]. Gulliver Revived: or the vice of lying properly exposed. Containing singular travels, campaigns, voyages, and adventures in Russia...and through the centre of Mount Aetna, into the South Sea. Also, an account of a voyage into the moon and dog-star...By Baron Munchausen. The seventh edition, considerably enlarged, and ornamented with twenty explanatory engravings, from original designs. London: printed for C. and G. Kearsley...1793. 12° in sixes (188 x 107mm). Folding frontispiece and 7 (of 8) folding copper-engraved plates depicting 16 (of 18) scenes from the book, variously dated within the year 1786, one signed "Munchausen pinxit". (Lacks A1 (half-title); U2-5 misbound between L3-4. Original blue paper boards with later plain green linen back. Wackermann 3.12. -- The Surprising Adventures of the Renowned Baron Munchausen, abridged...Gainsborough: printed by and for Henry Mozley. 1814. 12° (186 x 106mm). 2 wood engravings in text. Supplementary title (publisher's paper cover) with Derby imprint and vignetted wood-engraving. Bound into modern black cloth boards with gilt lettered spine. With two Munchausen imitations: The Life of Frederick Baron Trenck...London: Dean & Munday n.d. 37pp. and The Life...of Francis Baron Trenck...London: Dean & Munday n.d. 26 pp. Wackermann 3.28. -- The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Illustrated by Alfred Crowquill. London: Trübner & Co...1859. 8° (182 x 115mm). Title-page vignette "Here lies Baron Munchausen". Frontispiece and 9 plates printed in colour, 19 wood-engraved chapter head-pieces, tail-pieces etc. Green ribbed morocco grain cloth with gilt and blindstamped decorations front and back. Aeg. Provenance: To Dyson Taylor from his affectionate Father. Christmas Day 1858; David Usborne (book-plate). Wackermann 3·67; Osborne II p.926. (3)