Viages del Capitan Lemuel Gulliver a Diversos Paises Remotos . . .
Place and Imprint: Mexico City: Imprenta de Ignacio Cumplido, 1849.
Edition: Second Mexican edition, preceded by an edition of 1834, translated from the French (of which OCLC records one copy, at the Biblioteca Nacional Mexico); OCLC records three copies of this edition (Columbia, SMU and Pittsburgh).
Condition: Tear in the corner of one leaf, with loss of a few letters; very good copy.
Book ID: 29084
Physical Description
8vo, contemporary red quarter straight-grain morocco, marbled paper boards, gilt decorated and lettered spine. Frontispiece, four vignette divisional titles and more than 300 vignette wood engravings in the text.Comments
A profusely illustrated Mexican edition of Swift's famous imaginary voyage, with a biographical sketch of Swift by Sir Walter Scott. Many of the illustrations, as well as the biographical sketch, appear to be borrowed.Price: $450.00
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