[LITERATURE] [SWIFT, JONATHAN] [gulliver's travels] travels into several remote nations of the world London: for Benj. Motte, 1726. Four parts in two volumes. First edition, second issue. 8vo, leaf size 196 x 115 mm. With the 18th century engraved armorial book-plate of Charles Viscount Bruce of Ampthill on front paste-downs. Ownership ticket of William Harris Arnold below Viscount Bruce's book-plates. With portrait frontispiece and 6 engraved plates, including 5 maps. Contemporary gilt paneled brown calf, rebacked with 20th century tan calf, 20th century burgundy spine labels. Extremities of original bindings rubbed; offsetting from portrait onto general title-page, scattered light foxing to text and plates, darkening to edges of leaves at front in both volumes, manuscript notation in pencil on front free endpaper of the first volume. Ex-library with call number in pencil on front paste-downs and title-pages. Teerink "AA" Edition (second 8vo edition), unmixed issue with Hubbard's "Second Edition" points throughout all four parts; second state of the portrait. [Teerink 290]; Hubbard pp.15-43 ff.; ESTC 139540. PROVENANCE: The Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Alexander Weddell, Richmond, Virginia. Deaccessioned by The Virginia House Museum to benefit future preservation, acquisitions, and care of collections.