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Auction archive: Lot number 446

Swift, Jonathan].

Estimate
£200 - £300
ca. US$255 - US$383
Price realised:
£380
ca. US$485
Auction archive: Lot number 446

Swift, Jonathan].

Estimate
£200 - £300
ca. US$255 - US$383
Price realised:
£380
ca. US$485
Beschreibung:

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships... , Second Edition, 4 parts in 2 volumes, [vol. 2, second edition, corrected], Benj[amin] Motte, 1727, portrait frontispiece of Gulliver lacking, 20pp. Verses, five engraved maps and one plate, advert leaf to volume two torn to lower blank margin and lined to verso, copious pencil notes & annotations throughout (note indicating former ownership as 'L. L. Hubbard's copy for corrections'), first & last few leaves strengthened to gutter margins (initial leaves a little loose), few leaves in volume 1 with small worm holes and short trail, some spotting and browning throughout, few stains mostly to fore-margins, later endpapers frayed and one torn, contemporary calf, rebacked and some corners repaired, rubbed, 8vo Teerink 293. The stated second edition, but actually the fourth octavo edition. Lucius L. Hubbard (1849-1933) was an author of books on mineralogy and geology, and a collector of Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe books. He wrote Contributions toward a bibliography of Gulliver's travels to establish the number and order of issue of the Motte editions of 1726 and 1727, their relative accuracy and the source of the changes made in the Faulkner edition of 1735, (published Chicago, W.M. Hill, 1922). (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 446
Auction:
Datum:
14 Jun 2017
Auction house:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Mallard House
Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Nr Cirencester
Gloucestershire, GL75UQ
United Kingdom
info@dominicwinter.co.uk
+44 (0)1285 860006
+44 (0)1285 862461
Beschreibung:

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships... , Second Edition, 4 parts in 2 volumes, [vol. 2, second edition, corrected], Benj[amin] Motte, 1727, portrait frontispiece of Gulliver lacking, 20pp. Verses, five engraved maps and one plate, advert leaf to volume two torn to lower blank margin and lined to verso, copious pencil notes & annotations throughout (note indicating former ownership as 'L. L. Hubbard's copy for corrections'), first & last few leaves strengthened to gutter margins (initial leaves a little loose), few leaves in volume 1 with small worm holes and short trail, some spotting and browning throughout, few stains mostly to fore-margins, later endpapers frayed and one torn, contemporary calf, rebacked and some corners repaired, rubbed, 8vo Teerink 293. The stated second edition, but actually the fourth octavo edition. Lucius L. Hubbard (1849-1933) was an author of books on mineralogy and geology, and a collector of Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe books. He wrote Contributions toward a bibliography of Gulliver's travels to establish the number and order of issue of the Motte editions of 1726 and 1727, their relative accuracy and the source of the changes made in the Faulkner edition of 1735, (published Chicago, W.M. Hill, 1922). (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 446
Auction:
Datum:
14 Jun 2017
Auction house:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Mallard House
Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Nr Cirencester
Gloucestershire, GL75UQ
United Kingdom
info@dominicwinter.co.uk
+44 (0)1285 860006
+44 (0)1285 862461
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