Jules VERNE

VERNE Jules
Bourses de voyage
[Travel Scholarships]
Hetzel, Paris 1903, 18 x 27,5 cm, publisher’s binding
First edition, only a small number of copies were printed according to Jauzac. 74 illustrations by Banett, among which 13 photographs (Barbados, Saint Lucie) and 12 polychromes plates and a map of the West Indies.
Publisher's binding au globe doré in type 3, that is the most successful type for this binding, with the upper plate by Blancheland, binding by Engel. Second cover type h, with the letters intertwined on a black background.
A beautiful first plate in gleaming gold with discreet stains on the cartouche, and in the

New Edition. Several in-text drawings by Férat engraved by Barbant.
Type 4 publisher's boards known as “Au globe doré”, with the second board of type Engel i, the two vertical letters JH against a background of horizontal stripes. Spine with the lighthouse.
Beautiful first panel stamp, very fresh, with dazzling golds. Small marks on the cartouche. Sun-lightened spine. Caps and corners skillfully restored. Foxing on the spine. Second board with marks. Scattered foxing.
One of the author's most famous adventure novels in which Michel Strogoff, messenger of the Russian Tsar, from Moscow to Irkutsk (Capital of eastern Siberia), must warn the Tsar's brother of the arrival of the Ta

New edition, illustrated with 150 drawings by Riou. Catalog GK in fine. The later editions of this carton will possess 6 color prints, which will be simple enlargement colorized prints already present in black and white.
Cartonnage editor said "the portrait glued" to the signed Souze plate and connected by Lenègre. Back to the lighthouse. second board Lenègre like "e". Belle top plate. Slight discolouration under the cartridge of the author's name. A slightly emerged slip. A notebook is off from the inside. Rubbed corners and slightly bent. Back a little past but net gold and colors. Headdresses and rubbed folded. Second course with dirt, but good enough. Few scattered spots on a fresh

Edition illustrated with drawings of J. Férat, engraved by Barbant. BR catalog for 1884.
Cardboard with two elephants to the rare lilac signed in Lenègre tail, type 1. spine three decorated boxes. Second flat Wearing a button Cold round, registered cold bottom left Lenegre rel. gray guards.
Beautiful first plate, but two small spots along the black edge. upper joint split in head 2.5cm. Upper corner slightly blunted law. Insolated back evenly. Micro cuts copings. Inkblot down the second course, and on the last pages of the catalog. Fresh copy, free of foxing.