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Printed for Benjamin Motte, at the Middle-Temple-Gate, 1726 Vol.2 (of 2) (being parts III & IV). 3 engraved maps and 1 engraved table (being plate nos. III, IV, V, & VI, woodcut head and tail-pieces and decorative initials. 8vo (7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches), pages: (6):154:(8):199. Contemporary full tan calf, rubbed & scuffed, both boards detached. Last leaf creased, Plate VI holed but not affecting the engraved image.

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.