Live auction - Lot 1426
Le nouveau Gulliver, ou Voyage de Jean Gulliver, fils du capitaine Gulliver. Traduit d'un manuscrit anglois, par Monsieur L.D.F.
Paris, Widow Clouzier et Fr. Le Breton, 1730
€ 100 / 120
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Lot description
2 parts in 1 vol., 12mo: [32]-262-[6], [8]-259 pp.
Red morocco by Brany, triple gilt ruled covers, gilt orn. spine with raised bands, gilt & marbled edges (some sm. traces of use). Good copy.
First edition of the continuation of Gulliver's Travels by J. Swift. Desfontaines (1685-1745), the translator of Swift's work, was a French journalist and popular historian who contributed to the "Journal des Scavans". He and Voltaire opposed, attacked and responded to each other in books.
Ref. Barbier III:502. - Conlon 30:407. - Cioranescu 23318.
Prov. Jean-Baptiste Moens (armorial bookpl.). - [Georges Petit].
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