Beschreibung:

SWIFT, JONATHAN Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver. First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships. London: for Benj.[amin] Motte, 1726, 1727. The first volume (parts I and II) is Teerink's AA edition (mid-November 1726). The second volume (parts III and IV) is the stated second edition of 1727. Two volumes, full red morocco by Morell of London, covers edged by rules in gilt and blind, outlined raised bands ending in leafy clusters on the covers, top edges gilt. 7 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches (19 x 12 cm); frontispiece portrait (in second state, as usual), xi, 148 pp., with one map; iv, 164 pp., with one map; [2-ads], [vi], 155, [1] pp., with three maps and plates; [viii], 199, [1] pp., with one map. Joints a bit rubbed, two pages in the third part with marginal restorations, in general a sound copy. A mixed set, the first two parts with all of the specified misprints in Teerink, the second two parts with the "second edition" title page. Teerink 290, 293. C