120 / 146
270
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VERNE, JULES.
A Journey to
the Centre of the Earth.
With 52
wood-engraved plates, included in the
pagination. 8vo, modern blue cloth,
rebound with the front cover and spine
laid-down; new endpapers.
FIRST AMERI
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CAN EDITION
with no address given under
the publisher’s imprint on the title.Myers 35.
NewYork: Scribner Armstrong & Co.,
1874 (i.e. 1873)
[1,000/1,500]
WITH
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Another copy. Illustrated. 8vo, original
terra-cotta pictorial cloth, extremities rubbed
with minimal exposure; ownership inscription,
occasional foxing. Second American edition, sold
by subscription; with 6 pages adverts, last show-
ing From the Earth to the Moon Direct. NY,
[1874-75]. Myers 35.
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VERNE, JULES.
From the
Earth to the Moon.
Illustrated with 80
wood-engraved plates. 8vo, publisher’s
green cloth pictorially stamped in gilt and
black over bevelled edges, crudely
rebacked with original cloth laid-down,
hinges tight, cocked; few gatherings
uneven, 4-pages advertisements at end.
FIRST FULLY ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN EDI
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TION
. Myers, 26.
NewYork: Scribner,Armstrong, & Co.,
1874
[500/750]
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VERNE, JULES.
Around the
World in Eighty Days.
Illustrations by
A. de Neuville and L. Bennett, full-page
sketch of the “Saint Michael” by Verne.
8vo, terra-cotta pictorial cloth, decorated
in black and gilt, over beveled boards, all
edges gilt, leaning, spine tips rubbed with
short splits, small ink stain to rear board,
corners rubbed; penciled ownership
inscription and ink inscription.
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1873
[800/1,200]
FIRST FULLY ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN EDI
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TION
with the scarce 1873 title-page. Osgood
had published their first edition in the summer
of the same year with a single illustration,
Verne’s sketch of the “Saint Michel.” Verne’s
most widely published novel. Myers 54.
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