Jules Hetzel et Cie (1843 - 1914)

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...

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.

The collected edition for the first 16 volumes and first editions for Les Contemplations and La Légende des Siècles.
Contemporary uniform half dark blue polished calf by Simier, relieur du Roi, spines in compartments with blindstamped decoration, fillets, compartments and gilt motifs.
A few headpieces and joints delicate, foxing, principally to some plates.
This set is illustrated – as well as the 34 vignettes of the Furne edition engraved on steel after drawings by Raffet, Johannot, Colin and Louis Boulanger – with 48 further illustrations, including an engraving by Devéria of the Odes and Ballads, an engraved title for the Autumn Leaves (1831), the...

Complete Edition.
Binders half red shagreen with corners, back with five nerves set with gold threads adorned with triple gilded boxes decorated in angles of black romantic arabesques, dates and golden friezes tails, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, three blankets and spine preserved (four courses with small marginal gaps), an upper corner of the third volume blunt, golden head.
Our copy is enriched with an autograph note signed by Victor Hugo Mery, brother of novelist Joseph Mery: "Dear Mery, thank your brother I will write it after reading it, but before I speak to the minister as I tell you.. Luther to Melanchthon: frater tuus frater meus...

The first edition and first printing of the engravings.
Contributions from Théophile Gautier, Laurent-Jan, Léon Gozlan, Auguste Lireux and Jules Hetzel under the pseudonym of P.-J. Stahl, among others.
Contemporary Romantic green shagreen, spine richly gilt with Rocaille tools and gilt fleurons, large frame of fillets and gilt tools to covers, sizeable blindstamped tool to covers, pastedowns with gilt roulette frame, endpapers and pastedowns of white moiré material (soiled), gilt fillet to edges of covers, all edges gilt.
With a general frontispiece, 14 vignettes (one repeated) and 320 plates, all woodcuts.
References : Vicaire, III, 953-955 ; Brivois pp.168-171...

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...

First edition.
Half morocco, covers preserved, slight tears to headpieces, top edge gilt.
A nice copy without foxing and elegantly bound.

First edition.
Half morocco slight rubbing to head of joints, covers preserved, slight tears to headpieces, top edge gilt.
A nice copy without foxing and elegantly bound.

First edition, one of the few copies on Rives which he is no mention.
Binding havana half shagreen, spine browned on four bands set with black fillets decorated with double black boxes, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, gilded head, contemporary binding.
Precious autograph signed by the author to his mother.
About Victor Hugo, Alfred de Musset, Pierre Jean Beranger, Auguste Barbier, poetic utopias ...
Rare.

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...