JULES HETZEL ET CIE

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, you Victor Hugo Friday 29. "..
The autograph ticket is mounted on tab and placed at the head of the third volume and accompanied by a bookseller description tag mounted on the ticket foot tab.
Pleasant copy established in uniform binding.

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 ; Carteret, III-260-264.
A remarkable copy with no spotting whatever in a significant contemporary Romantic binding.

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 dedicated posthumously to Alexandre Dumas. Jules Verne tribute indeed in this novel the author of the Count of Monte Cristo ("In this book, I tried to Matthias Sandorf the Monte Cristo Extraordinary Voyages."); Sandorf was imprisoned and betrayed like him and his adventures retrace his revenge. The novel is set in the Mediterranean region of southern Europe.

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 return to adventure stories for the author after several books of science fiction.
$ 1 100

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.