Jules VERNE, Édouard RIOU
Cinq semaines en ballon. Voyage de découvertes en Afrique par trois Anglais[Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, A Journey of Discovery by Three Englishmen in Africa]
J. Hetzel|Paris s. d. [1865]|16.5 x 24 cm|Reliure de l'éditeur
First illustrated edition with fifty-one engravings drawn by Édouard Riou and Henri de Montaut, and engraved by Hildibrand, Dumont, Fournier, Delaville, Pannemaker and Coste. "Bibliothèque d'éducation et de récréation" collection, a thirty-two page publisher's catalogue at the end of the volume.
Binding in brown half-shagreen, boards in red-brown percaline cloth, blind-stamped, spine with four raised bands, gilt compartments and fillets, gilt author and title, pastedowns of moiré-effect paper, gilt edges. Binding very slightly rubbed, a small tear to the vertical edge of the lower board, a few traces of mould to the pastedowns, some foxing to the leaves.
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€150