(SWIFT, JONATHAN). Travels into several remote nations of the world. In four parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, and then a captain of several ships. Vol. I-II. London, printed for Benjamin Motte, 1726.

8:o (about 190x110 mm. (vol.I) and 196x117 mm. (vol. II). Engraved frontispiece portrait, (4), v-xii, (4), (1)-148); 6), (1)-164; (6), (1)-154; (8), (1)-199, (1 blank) pp. With 6 engraved maps and plates, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces (complete).
Titles within double-lined frames. Teerink's second state of the portrait with vertical chainlines [2a]. Title to vol. I with small note. Some most marginal browning and foxing, a few spots. Some minor dampstaining at end of vol. I. Some minor worming in outer margin of vol. II.
Contemporary full brown calf bindings, worn and rubbed, boards with blindtooled decor, some mending to corners, rebacked spines in compartments with new labels. Old signatures on first endpaper in vol. I. 2 volumes.

FIRST EDITION, second issue, Teerink's edition "AA", published in Nov. 1726. General title to vol. II with Second edition. First edition, second issue of one of the most influential works of satire and early science fiction by Jonathan Swift, the sharp critic of British society, politics, science, and human nature.

LITERATURE: Teerink & Scouten 290; PMM 185.