Jules VERNE

With 85 drawings by Léon Benett.
Publisher’s (Hetzel’s "elephant and fan") red cloth boards by Engel, polychrome upper cover signed by Engel with the title in a gilt and black fan, several gilt and black frames, a gilt elephant’s head to upper left, three small illustrations of navigation and exploration tools, the whole within a frame of green foliage, lower cover Jauzac’s type “i”, the “lighthouse” spine with several illustrations in gilt and colors, original blue endpapers, all edges gilt.
Headpieces a little rubbed, tiny decolorations to margin of upper cover and a few spots to end of volume, otherwise a very good copy.

First and only octavo edition with 78 illustrations by George Roux, including 12 chromotypography prints and 2 colored maps.
Publisher's binding by Hetzel "à l'éventail et à l'éléphant" in full red percaline signed A. Lenègre, polychrome front cover signed Engel featuring the title in a black and gilt fan, multiple black and gilt frames, a gilt elephant head in the upper left corner, three small illustrations and various gilt navigation and exploration instruments, all framed within green foliage, back cover of type "i" as indicated by Jauzac, spine decorated with several colored and gilt illustrations, all edges gilt.
Spine somewhat faded with rubbing at headcaps. Blue endpapers r

Edition illustrated by Riou.
Hetzel publisher's binding "au globe doré" in full red percaline signed Engel, front cover polychrome signed Blancheland depicting various gilt navigation instruments in a frame of gilt chains topped with green plants, back cover of type "h" as indicated by Jauzac, spine with lighthouse decorated with several color and gilt illustrations, original blue endpapers, all edges gilt. Gift inscription in ink on the half-title page.
Spine slightly faded and rubbed at headcaps, blue endpapers replaced, corners very slightly bumped, a discreet restoration at the foot of the front cover joint.

Edition illustrated with drawings Meyer, engraved by Barbant. S catalog ultimately to 1879.
Editor Cardboard both cobalt blue elephant (as the name of Roethel). Souze signed plate. Binding signed Lenègre on the second flat (type b. with its octagonal badge cold) with a star, mark the First printinging from 1878. Beautiful top plate with minimal defects = slightly folded corner, rubbing along with loss color. Back in good condition, without discoloration but probably restored tail, with small white spots. The second course, besides a few scratches and friction was taken to the bottom right corner, with refill (probably an old wetness). pale scattered spots.
Adventur

Illustrated Edition. 111 drawings by Bennett and card. Catalog ultimately for the year 1886.
Cardboard editor connected by Lenègre; special plaque by Souze. Cardboard told the silvery banner, or the ball to the rare purple. The cardboard was used only for the triple volume Sandorf.
Beautiful first plate, the external beveled brod cleared. spine uniformly irradiated. A cut in the rear of the upper joint of 2cm. Second course with small white spots. Bottom right hand corner blunt. Good condition inside without freckles. Despite the obvious defects, desirable copy for its beautiful color combination, silver on a purple background.
Sandorf is dedi

VERNE Jules
Nord contre Sud
[Texar's Revenge, or North Against South]
Hetzel, Paris 1887, 17 x 28 cm, publisher's binding
First edition with 85 illustrations by Benett and a map of the world at end. Publisher's catalogue at end.
Publisher's binding aux deux éléphants et à l'éventail, signed Souze and bound by Lenègre. Spine type D (cf. Jauzac), lower cover type n. Headpieces and edges slightly rubbed. A few thin lines of discoloration to lower cover. Four centimeters crack to endpapers. Occasional faint spotting.
A very good copy, rare in this color.
An adventure story set during the American Civil War, this work is a retu

Ilustrée new edition with a frontispiece by Benett and engraved by Hildibrand, a label with the title, header 2, 49 in-text and 3 large prints full page in color by Neuville and Benett and a double-page map.
Cardboard to the acanthus leaf. 3 highlights of notebooks, a detached engraving, but superb condition from the carton. paper very clean, completely free of foxing. First printing in the carton.