Books

London: printed for Benj. Motte, 1726. B edition (aka third edition), four parts in two volumes, plus the first edition of the spurious "third volume," 8vo; frontispiece portrait in the second state, four engraved maps and two plans; full speckled calf, gilt ruled borders, rebacked, red morocco labels on spines; corners bumped, occasional light foxing, light dampstaining to corners of volume 2, closed tear to S2 in volume 2; very good. Together with: Travels into several remote nations of the world. Vol. III. London: 1727. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 118, [8], 159, [1]; frontispiece; paneled calf, rebacked, corners bumped, dampstaining on fore-edge not affecting text, very good. This "third volume" was a spurious edition and a plagiarism, but is often included with the genuine volumes for completion's sake. The whole set with the bookplates of Henry Clerke Collison and Charles Bruce, 3rd Earl of Ailesbury. Teerink 291 & 292.

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.