130 - 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 foxing and browning, hinges broken or cracked, contemporary calf, heavily rubbed, joints repaired on vol 1., remaining joints are split, losses and chips to spine labels, slight losses to spine ends, housed in a modern calf backed and cloth solander box, [Teerink 291; Rothschild 2108], 8vo, for Benj[amin] Motte, 1726.

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 foxing and browning, hinges broken or cracked, contemporary calf, heavily rubbed, joints repaired on vol 1., remaining joints are split, losses and chips to spine labels, slight losses to spine ends, housed in a modern calf backed and 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: Thomas Johnes armorial bookplates in each volume; Walter Ganz of Yonkers (pencil inscriptions to front endpapers). From the library of Jay Michael Haft. Previously came to auction in 2022 at Sotheby's New York and prior to that in 1938, London.