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1730s: Person opens book and turns pages. Portrait of man.

1730s · ID: row-945

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United States 1950s: A person's hands open a worn antique leather-bound book and turn its pages, revealing the title page for "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World" by Lemuel Gulliver, complete with an engraved portrait of "Captain Lemuel Gulliver." The camera continues through the publisher's note to the reader and further pages showing a chapter list and a hand-drawn map, illustrating an 18th-century (1730s) edition of Gulliver's Travels.

Subjects: 1730s 18th century 1950s aged paper antique book archival archival footage book cover book illustration book pages chapter list classic novel close reading close-up colonial era color footage eighteenth century english literature engraved portrait ephemera exploration fiction gulliver's travels hand turning pages hand-drawn map hands historical document history leather bound lemuel gulliver literature manuscript old book print publisher's note rare book reading remote nations textbook title page vintage world travel worn cover