Gulliver's Travels or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

First published in 1726, this satire follows Lemuel Gulliver, an English ship's surgeon, through four voyages to remote nations. He is a giant among the tiny Lilliputians, a miniature among the Brobdingnagians, a visitor to the flying island of Laputa and its distracted projectors, and finally a guest of the rational horses, the Houyhnhnms, who keep brutish human Yahoos. Each land is a mirror for European courts, science, and pride. Gulliver returns more alienated after each trip. The book is a travel narrative used as political and moral invective, not a children's adventure, though the first voyage is often read that way.

Quarter bound in vellum with paper sides. Gilded top edge. Ribbon marker. Brown clamshell box with red paper spine label titled in gold.