Jules VERNE

Michel Strogoff suivi d'Un drame au Mexique With drawings by Jules Férat engraved by Charles Barbant.
Bradel binding in half bottle-green shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments with gilt fleurons, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, t.e.g.
Very rare autograph inscription signed by Jules Verne to Charles Hullot, who took part, at the Théâtre du Châtelet in 1881, in the staging of Michel Strogoff: “To Mr Charles Hullot, souvenir of the performances at Chatelet. With best wishes. Jules Verne.”
A very rare autograph inscription by Jules Verne on...

Jules VERNE
Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers
[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]
Hetzel | Paris 1898 | 8vo (18 x 27.5 cm)
| 434 pp | publisher's cloth
New edition, illustrated with 111 drawings by Neuville and Riou. Catalogue AJ for 1898-1899.
Publisher's illustrated cloth with the gilt Globe. Upper plate signed Blancheland, Engel bookbinder. Beautiful upper plate with bright golds. Corners and joints showing signs of rubbing. Good spine, with clean golds, but 2 small cuts in the spine-ends and one tiny cut at the bottom. Small brown mark on the lighthouse vignette. Beautiful second board, despite a mark on the upper right corner. Some leaves slightly...

First illustrated collected edition. 36 drawings by Georges Roux for Sans dessus dessous, 41 drawings and two maps for Le chemin de France.
Publisher's binding with two elephants, Lenègre type 3, existing only in red. Back cover of Lenègre type e, with central roundel with black frond. Beautiful first plate, with bright gilt, with scratched areas in the lower border. Headcaps slightly turned in. Spine good, but slightly sunned. Back cover very good, with scratched area in the lower border, and a small area at the top, a fine horizontal scratch. Upper corners slightly turned in. Paper perfectly fresh, completely free of foxing. Cohesive and solid volume.
Very handsome copy.

Jules VERNE
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers [Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]
Jules Hetzel | Paris 1879 | 18.5 x 28 cm | publisher's binding
New edition. 111 drawings by De Neuville and Riou.
So called “Aux deux éléphants” (“To two elephants”) red publisher’s boards (plate signed “Souze, Lenègre binder” at the bottom). Lenègre b style second board, with octagonal blind tooled button. These boards coexisted alongside similar boards in 1879, but were bound by Engel. Beautiful first plate, very fresh, with shiny golds. Good spine. Good second plate with some tiny stains. The spine-ends are in position and are barely sunken. Corners straight...

Edition illustrated with 41 drawings and a map by Montaut and 44 drawings by Emile Bayard and de Neuville.
Hetzel publisher's boards “with a fan and an elephant” in full red cloth signed A. Lenègre, first polychrome board signed Engel, type “i” second board as indicated by Jauzac, spine with a lighthouse, original blue endpapers, all edges gilt.
Original blue endpapers marginally faded as is usual and reinforced with blue adhesive tape. Spine faded all over.
Ex-dono in ink on the first pastedown endpaper.
De la Terre à la Lune, trajet direct en 97 heures 20 minutes (From the Earth to the Moon, direct in 97 Hours 20 minutes) is a novel of anticipation. It relates...