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122 - Swift (Jonathan) Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver, 4 parts in 2 vol., first edition, third issue, Teerink's "B edition", frontispiece engraved portrait, 6 plates of maps and diagrams, 5 titles, woodcut head and tail pieces and decorative initials, bookplates, occasional light spotting and foxing, some occasional creases, hinges to vol. 1 broken, hinges to vol. 2 cracked, contemporary calf, rubbed to spine ends, joints, and corners, upper joints split, housed in a modern cloth solander box, [Teerink 291; Rothschild 2108], 8vo, for Benj[amin] Motte, 1726.
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Swift (Jonathan) Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver, 4 parts in 2 vol., first edition, third issue, Teerink's "B edition", frontispiece engraved portrait, 6 plates of maps and diagrams, 5 titles, woodcut head and tail pieces and decorative initials, bookplates, occasional light spotting and foxing, some occasional creases, hinges to vol. 1 broken, hinges to vol. 2 cracked, contemporary calf, rubbed to spine ends, joints, and corners, upper joints split, housed in a modern cloth solander box, [Teerink 291; Rothschild 2108], 8vo, for Benj[amin] Motte, 1726. *** Teerink's B edition of Swift’s classic novel: the third octavo edition, with the frontispiece portrait of Gulliver in the second state (with vertical chain lines). Provenance: Robert Bristow 18th century armorial bookplates, either 1688-1737 (MP for Winchelsea, 1708-1737), or his son, also Robert, 1712-1776 (also MP for Winchelsea 1738-1741); Frank Fraham, Newcastle on Tyne, 20th century bookplates; previously sold at Sotheby's London in 2022.
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