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Second edition. Vol. II only. Post 8vo, pp. [2 (advts)] + [6] + 199; brown leather bds, double roll-tooled border to bds in black; four plates; G+ (heavy scuffing & soiling to bds; heavy bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with heavy chipping; heavy cracking to joints, rear board detatched, front board connected to 2/5 cords at spine; leather to bds peeling; moderate to heavy tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; lacking ffep; moderate to heavy tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscriptions to fly leaf & tp in black ink; heavy insect holes throughout; moderate to heavy tanning, foxing & soiling throughout).

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.