“THEY WILL WONDERFULLY MEND THE WORLD”
SWIFT, Jonathan. Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World. London, 1726. Two volumes.
An exceptional copy of one of the scarcest and most desirable books in all of English literature, with engraved frontispiece portrait of Gulliver, six plates (four maps and two plans), in beautiful, unrestored, full contemporary calf bindings. Exceptionally rare in first issue, and most rare and desirable in contemporary bindings. Almost never seen in such beautiful condition. $182,000.
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“A SUPREME NOVELIST IN AN AGE OF GREAT NOVELISTS”
ELIOT, George. Collection of 12 first editions, uniformly bound. London, 1858-84. Thirty volumes.
Beautiful set of Eliot first editions, comprising all of her major works, including the scarce Scenes of Clerical Life (1858), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871) and Mill on the Floss (1860), with a first edition of her husband's George Eliot's Life, beautifully bound in three-quarter morocco-gilt by Birdsall. $16,000.
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COOKE’S ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, 1793
DEFOE, Daniel. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. London, 1793. Three volumes.
Cooke’s edition of Defoe’s classic story of survival, with five engraved plates, handsomely bound in full contemporary tree calf. $2000.
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