(Gulliver’s Travels) Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World ... By Lemuel Gulliver. by Jonathan Swift - 1726
by Jonathan Swift
(Gulliver’s Travels) Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World ... By Lemuel Gulliver.
by Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels - 2 volumes, octavo (190 x 115mm). Third issue - Teerink B. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author in the second state, 6 engraved plates (occasional extremely faint and insignificant spotting and browning). Contemporary speckled calf (extremities fractionally rubbed with a little wear to head of spine of vol. II, upper joints to both vols just starting to crack, otherwise a very good copy). In bespoke solander box. Teerink 291. Provenance: Robert Bristow (either 1688-1737, MP for Winchelsea, 1708-1737, or his son, also Robert, 1712-1776, also MP for Winchelsea 1738-1741; 18th-century engraved armorial bookplates) – Frank Graham (of Newcastle on Tyne; 20th-century bookplate).
Gulliver is one of the most famous English books of all time, and also the greatest work of literature associated with Australia. It is a key work in the imaginary voyage tradition, particularly for its use of a series of realistic framing devices which include maps, an editorial comment that the work has been greatly reduced by the omission of most of the material relating to winds and tides, and reference to genuine sailors such as Dampier. Gulliver, comments at one point that he was "coasting New Holland", and at another that he has been "driven by a violent storm to the north-west of Van Diemen's Land", in the very year (1699) that Dampier was in fact exploring the Australian northwest. Gulliver is quite precise in his mapping of the lands he visits, "With a latitude given as 30°2' south, the imaginary Lilliput … is placed somewhere in South Australia, probably near the isles of St Francis and St Peter at the eastern end of the Great Australian Bight".
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- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1726
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Essai sur le Phlogistique, et sur la constitution des Acides
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Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
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THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER.
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Het Achterhuis.(The Diary of Anne Frank). [First Edition, First Print].: Dagboekbrieven 12 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944.
by Anne Frank
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Historiae Animalium: LIber II: De quadrupedibus oviparis; LIber III: De avium natura
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Volume 2, Oviparous Quadrupeds including reptiles and amphibia, and Volume 3, Birds, bound together in one.
With a total of 2 title vignettes and 241 woodcuts, many full-page, credited to Lucas Schan.
Historiae Animalium LIber II: De quadrupedibus oviparis, second edition, Frankfurt, Johann Wechel for Robert Cambier, 1586. 4 ff., 119 pp. with 19 woodcuts.
Historiae Animalium LIber III: De avium natura, first edition, Frankfurt, Johann Wechel for Robert Cambier, 1585. 6 ff., 806 pp. with 222 woodcuts, 13 ff.
The majority of the bird illustrations are believed to be by Lucas Schan, active 1526-58, a natural history artist and wildfowler of Strasbourg.
The woodcut of the Pica Bresillica, or toucan, is "based on a beak sent to Gessner by Giovanni Ferrerio, and the rest of the body was reconstructed from Thevet's Les singularitez de la France antarctique. " The lesser bird of paradise may have been drawn from a specimen… Read More
To a God Unknown
by Steinbeck, John
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Journal des Dames et des Modes: 1912-1914
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Number 742 of only 1250 sets on Holland paper (out of a total edition of 1279).
Complete set of this stylish periodical that was published from June 1912 to August 1914, ending with the outbreak of the First World War.
An homage to the title and format of La Mésangère's periodical of 100 years before, the new Journal des Dames et des Modes was edited by T.A.: Tommaso Antongini, personal secretary and biographer of Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio.
With prose by Henri Duvernois, Marcel Boulenger and Paul Margueritte, poems by Jean Cocteau, Anna de Noailles, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, and others.
The fine pochoir fashion plates by famous Belle Epoque illustrators including Georges Barbier, Léon Bakst, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, Umberto Brunelleschi, H. Robert Dammy, Paul Iribe, Charles Martin, Fernand Siméon, etc.
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THE NAVAL OFFICER'S GUIDE
by Arthur A. Ageton Commander, U.S.Navy
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The Lady in the Lake: A Philip Marlow Mystery.
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A System of Geography: or, a New and Accurate Description of the Earth In all its Empires, Kingdoms and States. Illustrated with History and Topography, and maps of every Country, Fairly Engraven on Copper, according to the latest Discoveries and Corrections
by MOLL, Herman
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Folio. Contemp. full calf, 5 raised bands, Blindtooled covers, Cambridge-binding style. Rebacked, preserving most of original spine. Front free endpapers renewed. Engraved frontispiece (M. Vander Gucht Sculp). Printed title in red a. black. (6),4,(28),26,444 - (2),230,(28) pp. One folio (signature N) outside pagenumbering: "The World in Planisphere". Some textengravings, some wood-engravings in the text. With all 43 engraved maps interspersed in the text. A bit of corner of one leaf (pp.313-14) gone affecting a small part of the frame on the last map (Chili, Magellans-Land). Printed on good paper, a few scattered brown spots,mainly in first part. Some browning to two leaves in the first index (signaturee,1-2).
First edition. The work is, in effect, an enlarged edition of the "Thesaurus geographicus" (1695) omitting allexcept one of the small town plans but with additional maps marked as "New""(Shirley T.MOLL-1b, where the worldmap is missing).In 1701 he published A System… Read More
(19 vols.) The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin
by Jonathan Swift
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We Loved Them Once
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