De la Terre à la Lune. Trajet direct en 97 heures[From the Earth to the Moon Direct in 97 Hours] Bibliothèque d'éducation et de récréation J. Hetzel et Cie | Paris [1865] | 11 x 18 cm | bound in shagreen
Rare first edition of the second work by Jules Verne, and his first science-fiction novel, one year before the illustrated boards appeared.
Bound in half red shagreen, spine in four compartments set with blind tooled fillets and adorned with double gilt spine panels and a blind tooled spine panel, frame of blind tooling on the paper boards, white iridescent silk endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary binding. S