Books

Early printing, unrecorded in Teerink (2nd ed.). Two volumes. (12), 227 pp; (8), 336 pp. Hardcovers, bound in calf backed marbled boards. The boards well rubbed; occasional marginal stains in volume one.

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.