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Voyages de Gulliver. Seconde edition. (Gulliver's Travels. Second edition.)
Swift, Jonathan / Desfontaines. · Paris
- Author
- Swift, Jonathan / Desfontaines.
- Date
- 1727
- Place
- Paris
- Publisher
- A Milendo: Chez les Fres Pigmeos
- Language
- French
- Binding
- Full contemporary calf, marble endpapers
- Format
- 16mo (3.25x6") Very heavy gilt, 5 compartments, 2 labels
- Category
- Fore-Edge Paintings
- Record
- S.I.0628
Voyages de Gulliver. Seconde edition. Vol.II (Gulliver's Travels. Second edition, Vol.2 only) Jonathan Swift / Desfontaines. 1727. Paris: A Miledendo: Chez les Fres Pigmeos. 16mo (3.25" x 6") 325 pp. Full contemporary mottled calf. Spine with five raised bands, gilt lettering to brown leather in second and third compartments, fancy gilt rule frames and single gilt floral device centered to all others. All edges reddened, marbled endpapers. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with loss to corners, small loss to rear board at fore-edge. Head and foot of spine chipped with small loss, scuffing to spine, upper board tender, holding fast. Two prior owners names in ink to first free flyleaf. French Language.
Condition
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