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Jules VERNE. Nineteenth-century travelers. - Lot 27
Jules VERNE. Nineteenth-century travelers.
Jules VERNE.
Les voyageurs du XIXe siècle.
51 drawings by Léon Benett. 57 facsimiles (based on old documents) and maps by Matthis and Morieu.
Bibliothèque d'éducation et de récréation. J. Hetzel et Cie. Paris (1880).
Large in-8. Publisher's boards.
Red percaline, gilt edges. Special Ptolemaic armillary sphere decoration.
Cat. AI in fine, Ntés 1880-1881. Brown endpapers.
First edition, only hardback.
Third and final part of the travel series. This one devoted to the great discoveries of the 19th century, especially Africa, the great circumnavigations and the polar regions.
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