Five weeks in a balloon / Journey to the... - Lot 1 - Giquello

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Five weeks in a balloon / Journey to the... - Lot 1 - Giquello
Five weeks in a balloon / Journey to the center of the Earth by Jules Verne. Illustrations by Riou and Montaut, then Riou alone. Paris, Bibliothèque d'Éducation et de Récréation, J. Hetzel Éditeur, 1867. Large double in-8°. Customized full sapphire blue percaline boards with the words "Les Voyages Extraordinaires / Deuxième série / Jules Verne" on the cover. Charles Magnier bookbinder. Gilt edges. Combed endpapers. Printed by Jules Bonaventure. Second edition illustrated and enlarged with 26 new captioned engravings for Cinq semaines en ballon (1867) and first illustrated edition for Voyage au center de la Terre (1867). First collective binding without the general frontispiece. Covers so skillfully consolidated that the work is invisible. Otherwise, a superb copy, particularly rare in this condition and especially in this color!
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