De la Terre à la Lune. Trajet direct en 97 Heures

De la Terre à la Lune. Trajet direct en 97 heures
[From the Earth to the Moon Direct in 97 Hours]
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. Some minor foxing.
100 years before Neil Armstrong's “giant leap”, Jules Verne already attributed space conquest to the United States by recounting how the Baltimore Gin Club, after the Civil War, tried to send men to the moon in a shell. It was this reading as a child that inspired Georges Méliès to make the first science-fiction film in the history of cinema.

This Voyage Extraordinaire de la Terre à la Lune will be the source of many other scientific, artistic, literary vocations and even the great captains of industries who have today taken up the torch of Jules Verne's interstellar dream!