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Printed for Benjamin Motte, London 1726, 2 volumes, First edition, First printing, Octavo, contemporary full speckled brown calf gilt, raised bands, brown morocco spine labels, housed in two custom cloth chemise and a fine clamshell box. Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World. In four parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon and then a Captain of several Ships. An extraordinary copy in unrestored full contemporary calf, one of the scarcest and most desirable books in all of English literature, with engraved frontispiece portrait of Gulliver, six plates (four maps and two plans), as well as numerous woodcut initials, head- and tail pieces. Exceptionally rare first issue, particularly in contemporary calf. A classic "at once a favorite book of children and a summary of bitter scorn for mankind", Swifts Masterpiece will "last as long as the language, because it describes the vices of man in all nations" (DNB) "A remarkable feat in the creation of imaginary worlds as a…

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, better known as Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirizing both human nature and the 'travellers' tales' literary subgenre.

First editions can be identified by the correct publisher and the presence of certain textual errors that were corrected in later editions.