A Voyage Round The World. In Search of The Castaways: A Romantic Narrative of the Loss of Captain Grant of the Brig Britannia and of the Adventures of His Children and Friends in His Discovery and Rescue
A Voyage Round The World. In Search of The Castaways: A Romantic Narrative of the Loss of Captain Grant of the Brig Britannia and of the Adventures of His Children and Friends in His Discovery and Rescue
A Voyage Round The World. In Search of The Castaways: A Romantic Narrative of the Loss of Captain Grant of the Brig Britannia and of the Adventures of His Children and Friends in His Discovery and Rescue
A Voyage Round The World. In Search of The Castaways: A Romantic Narrative of the Loss of Captain Grant of the Brig Britannia and of the Adventures of His Children and Friends in His Discovery and Rescue
A Voyage Round The World. In Search of The Castaways: A Romantic Narrative of the Loss of Captain Grant of the Brig Britannia and of the Adventures of His Children and Friends in His Discovery and Rescue

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A Voyage Round The World. In Search of The Castaways: A Romantic Narrative of the Loss of Captain Grant of the Brig Britannia and of the Adventures of His Children and Friends in His Discovery and Rescue

VERNE, Jules; RIOU, Edward (illus.)

$2,500.00 Sale

Verne's fifth book, originally published in French in 1867 as "Les Enfants du Captain Grant." One of the few Verne works that Sampson Low never published in Britain. This volume contains all three parts of the tale; later these were usually published separately. Taves & Micheluk V005. Myers 34.

Publication Info

  • Publisher: J. B. Lippincott & Co.
  • Edition: First US Edition and first edition in English
  • Date Published: 1873
  • Place Published: Philadelphia
  • ISBN: n/a

Details

  • Condition: Good
  • Signed: No
  • Dust Jacket: No
  • Jacket Condition: n/a
  • Details:
    620, [4] p. 23 cm. Half title and title vignettes. 137 full-page plates and numerous in-text illustrations, numbering over 170 altogether. Brown cloth with black and gold impressing. Mylar wrap, removed for photos. Light wear to corners and spine ends. Front hinge cracking internally. Ink signature on a front endpaper. Stains to bottom margins pp. 158-9 affecting a couple of leaves in both directions. Some light stains and thumbing elsewhere. Tear in margin of p. 399.

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