Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 102

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
[SWIFT, JONATHAN.] Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. Engraved frontispiece portrait; 5 maps and one diagram. xvi, 148, [6], 164; [6], 155, [1], [8], 199 pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, 194x120 mm, brown morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf; portrait rehinged with ownership inscription of John Bulgin dated 1731 on verso, slightly showing through on recto, minor soiling on general title, 2 small stains on next leaf, dampstain in lower corner of gathering D in part 1 and gathering H in part 2, opening leaves in part 3 soiled in lower outer corner, early signature on title. London: Benj. Motte, 1726

Additional Details

first edition (Teerink "A"), with "Subsidies" correctly spelled on page 35 in part 1; page 74 misnumbered 44 and G6 a cancel in part 3; and "buth is" on page 52 in part 4. The portrait is in the second state, but printed on paper with vertical chainlines, which Teerink identifies with the second edition. Teerink-Scouten 289; Rothschild 2104; Printing and the Mind of Man 289.