SWIFT, Jonathan Voyages du capitaine Lemuel Gulliver en divers pays éloignés. Tome premier (- second) [trsl. from the English Pierre François Guyot Desfontaines]. 1727 P. Gosse & J. Neaulme, 12mo, cont. sheep (rubbed, head and tail def.), [8]-212,...
Estimation :
250 / 400
Adjudication :
280 €
Description
[8]-220 pp. (paper age-toned, some soiling, traces of use, tear in front. and *4). Good copy.
Repr. of the Paris ed. of the trsl. by Guyot Desfontaines (1685-1745) of the famous Gulliver’s Travels (1726) of J. Swift (1667-1745). Engr. ills : frontisp. "portrait" of Gulliver, 10 full-page pl. including 5 maps. As often without vol. 3, printed a year later (1728). Titles in red & black. Old acquisition entry on front flyleaf. Bookseller’s stamp. Ref. Conlon 27:718. Sander 1869. STCN (i.a. BL). We join : 2nd copy of the same edition, 12mo, cont. sheep (repaired), gilt spine on 5 raised bands, [8]-212, [8]-220 pp. (paper age-toned, blank fore-edge margin erased and underlaid). Good copy. Bookseller’s stamp. (2 vol.)
Repr. of the Paris ed. of the trsl. by Guyot Desfontaines (1685-1745) of the famous Gulliver’s Travels (1726) of J. Swift (1667-1745). Engr. ills : frontisp. "portrait" of Gulliver, 10 full-page pl. including 5 maps. As often without vol. 3, printed a year later (1728). Titles in red & black. Old acquisition entry on front flyleaf. Bookseller’s stamp. Ref. Conlon 27:718. Sander 1869. STCN (i.a. BL). We join : 2nd copy of the same edition, 12mo, cont. sheep (repaired), gilt spine on 5 raised bands, [8]-212, [8]-220 pp. (paper age-toned, blank fore-edge margin erased and underlaid). Good copy. Bookseller’s stamp. (2 vol.)
