JULES HETZEL ET CIE

VERNE Jules
Bourses de voyage
[Travel Scholarships]
Hetzel, Paris 1903, 18 x 27,5 cm, publisher’s binding
First edition, only a small number of copies were printed according to Jauzac. 74 illustrations by Banett, among which 13 photographs (Barbados, Saint Lucie) and 12 polychromes plates and a map of the West Indies.
Publisher's binding au globe doré in type 3, that is the most successful type for this binding, with the upper plate by Blancheland, binding by Engel. Second cover type h, with the letters intertwined on a black background.
A beautiful first plate in gleaming gold with discreet stains on the cartouche, and in the sky. Some minor discoloration on the external border. A corner is a bit rubbed. The spine is sunned, the gold is still present. The spine head is very slightly rubbed. The vignette with the lighthouse is slightly soiled. The second cover is good, with some dirt. Pale scattered foxing. A beautiful copy overall.
The West Indies school, a well-known English college, only welcomes young people who are of West Indian origins. Nine residents are attributed a scholarship for a trip. They will undertake an eventful sea crossing to the archipelago of the West Indies, the captain and the team being in fact crooks.
$ 950

New Edition. Several in-text drawings by Férat engraved by Barbant.
Type 4 publisher's boards known as “Au globe doré”, with the second board of type Engel i, the two vertical letters JH against a background of horizontal stripes. Spine with the lighthouse.
Beautiful first panel stamp, very fresh, with dazzling golds. Small marks on the cartouche. Sun-lightened spine. Caps and corners skillfully restored. Foxing on the spine. Second board with marks. Scattered foxing.
One of the author's most famous adventure novels in which Michel Strogoff, messenger of the Russian Tsar, from Moscow to Irkutsk (Capital of eastern Siberia), must warn the Tsar's brother of the arrival of the Tartar hordes who decided to invade Siberia.