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274

VERNE, JULES.

Le Tour du

Monde en Quatre-Vignts Jours.

Frontispiece, illustrations by De Neuville

et L. Benett, double-page map. 4to, contem-

porary

1

/

2

calf by Maclaren & Macniven,

spine in compartments with morocco let-

tering piece, few scuffs, mild rubbing;

foxing confined to front and end matter,

bookplate.

EARLY EDITION

,

WITH VERNE

S

VISITING CARD SIGNED BY HIM WITH

7-

LINE INSCRIPTION

dated March [18]96

laid-down to front pastedown.

Paris: J. Hetzel, [1873]

[500/750]

WITH

-

Les Tribulations d’un Chinois en Chine.

Illustrated with steel engravings by L. Benett. 4to,

publisher’s red cloth with pictorial cover by Paul

Souze, all edges gilt, extremities slightly rubbed with

some exposure to bottom edges; short closed tear to

blank margin of half-title/frontis leaf, preliminaries

foxed. Later cartonnage edition. Paris, [1895].

273

VERNE, JULES.

Le Docteur

Ox. Maitre Zacharius Un Hivernage

Dans Les Glaces, Un Drame Dans

Les Airs.

Illustrated. 1-page advertise-

ment at end. 4to, publisher’s green cloth,

front cover and spine gilt, rear cover

stamped in black, all edges gilt, very minor

rubbing to extremities; contemporary

ownership inscription to front flyleaf,

intermittent faint foxing.

FIRST ILLUS

-

TRATED EDITION THUS

,

WITH ALS

by Verne

(one page, recto only) addressed to

“Monsieur” tipped to half-title, from

Amiens, dated March 1, [18]80.

Paris: J. Hetzel, [1874]

[700/1,000]

WITH

-

Le Docteur Ox [with] Le Tour du

Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours. Illustrated. 4to,

original decorative red cloth with gilt designs

and lettering, all edges gilt, extremities rubbed

with little exposure; contents with intermittent

light foxing. First illustrated edition thus.

Double volume edition. Paris, [1876].

275

VERNE, JULES.

Twenty

Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.

2

maps, frontispiece, and numerous illustra-

tions. 8vo, gilt-pictorial green cloth, small

chip to outer edge of rear board; upper

corner of front flyleaf with abrasion and

slight loss from removed label. Second

American Edition, second issue, without

“the end” on page 303. A bright, clean

copy. Myers 56 (referring to the above as

“First American edition.”)

Boston: George Smith & Co., 1873

[800/1,200]

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