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Lot 132

WYSS (JOHANN DAVID)
The Family Robinson Crusoe: or, Journal of a Father Shipwrecked, with his Wife and Children, on an Uninhabited island, 2 vol.

10 November 2009, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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WYSS (JOHANN DAVID)

The Family Robinson Crusoe: or, Journal of a Father Shipwrecked, with his Wife and Children, on an Uninhabited island, 2 vol., first complete English edition, engraved folding map and 6 plates, some soiling and spotting, repairs to editor's note at end of volume one (with loss of text), G6 and M10 in volume 2, and one or two margins, light blue crushed morocco gilt by Bayntun (Rivière), inner gilt dentelles, t.e.g., spine slightly faded, 12mo, M.J. Godwin, 1816

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The first complete edition in English of the "Swiss family Robinson", the two volumes comprising a re-issue issue of Godwin's 1814 edition, with a cancel title-page, and the first appearance of Wyss' continuation, as announced in the note at the end of the first volume.

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