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Jules VERNE

L'invasion de la mer. Le phare du bout du monde

Collection Hetzel, Paris 1905, Grd. in-8 (18x27,5cm), 236pp. ; 204pp., relié.

Collective first edition illustrated (and only edition of this title) by George Roux 12 chromotypographies, inset black and many photographs of Algeria (some in color).
Carton to an elephant with title in the red vermilion fan. Back to the lighthouse. second board with palmettes frame and central macaroon. Beautiful top plate, but small areas scraped around "Extraordinary Journeys". Second flat good, but with some scraped areas at the left corner. Beautiful back, with clean gold, with a headdress a little sagging, the tail perfect. Along the outer edge, 1.5cm area rubbed. Sharp corners. Copy very fresh, without freckles.
Very nice copy.

The invasion of the sea , is the last novel which Jules Verne was able to correct the tests, and happens in Tunisia and in Algeria: project of a channel which would flood a part of the Sahara. As for the Lighthouse at the end of the world , Jules Verne did not correct the proofs and it was his son Michel who made a number of changes to the original text. The action takes place in South America, east of Tierra del Fuego, where the Pacific meets the Atlantic. Wreckers lurking there, reminiscent of Stevenson's novel of the same name. These two novels first appeared for the first time in 1905.
 

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