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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 Women that fly...Dublin: George Faulkner, 1751. 6 engraved plates (one folding) by Boitard. 2 volumes, 12mo, contemporary calf rebacked, worn, several covers detached. 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). Bookplate of Marquess of Headfort in each volume. (2)