Jules Hetzel et Cie (1843 - 1914)

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 return to adventure stories for the author after several books of science...

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.

First edition. Wood engraving signed in the plate by the artist.

Plate created specifically for the illustration of Cervantes' Don Quixote for the 1863 Hachette edition.

Gustave Doré first traveled to Spain in 1855, accompanied by Théophile Gautier and publisher Paul Dalloz. In 1861, responding to a commission from the journal Le Tour du monde, he returned there with Baron Jean Charles Davillier, an informed hispanophile, who would recount their journey in his Voyage en Espagne.
Doré went there primarily with a view to illustrating Don Quixote: "Je me rends donc dans la patrie de cet illustre hidalgo pour étudier tous les lieux qu'il a parcourus et remplis de ses exploits et faire ainsi une...

First edition. Wood engraving signed in the plate by the artist.

Plate created specifically for the illustration of Cervantes' Don Quixote for the Hachette edition of 1863.

Gustave Doré first traveled to Spain in 1855, in the company of Théophile Gautier and publisher Paul Dalloz. In 1861, responding to a commission from the journal Le Tour du monde, he returned there with Baron Jean Charles Davillier, a knowledgeable hispanophile, who would recount their journey in his Voyage en Espagne.
Doré went there primarily with a view to illustrating Don Quixote: "I am therefore going to the homeland of this illustrious hidalgo to study all the places he traveled through and filled with his exploits...

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Half caramel shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with double blind-stamped compartments, black shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Signed and inscribed by Alexandre Chatrian to his friend Ludovic Bouyon.
Bookplate of the dedicatee pasted on a pastedown.
Some minor foxing.

Third edition.
Bound in half grief caramel back with five nerves decorated with double coffered cold room as black sorrow, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, upper corners bumped, contemporary binding.
Signed autograph Emile Erckmann who also signed for Alexandre Chatrian to his "old friend" Ludovic Bouyon.
Some small minor foxing.