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From the Library of Clayre and Jay Michael Haft

[Swift, Jonathan] | "Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old."

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December 16, 07:56 PM GMT

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4,000 - 6,000 USD

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From the Library of Clayr🥃e and🉐 Jay Michael Haft


[Swift, Jonathan]

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World ... By Lemuel Gulliver. London: Benj[amin] Motte, 1726


4 parts in 2 volumes, 8vo (1🀅93 x 117 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of Gulliver and🐭 6 plates; some browning and light foxing. Contemporary English paneled speckled calf; lettering-pieces chipped, vol. 1 with extensive repairs to joints, splits to joints, other light wear. In a quarter calf folding case.


Teerink's B e𝐆dition of Swift’s classic novel: the third octavo edition, with the frontispiece portrait of Gulliver in the second state (with vertical chain lines).


REFERENCES:

Grolier/English 42; PMM 185; Rothschild 2104; Teerink 291


PROVENANCE:

Thomas Johnes (armorial bookplates in each volume; sold in our London rooms, 28 July 1938, lot 847) — W🃏alter Ganz, of Yonkers (pencil signatures on free endpapers)