Verne (Jules) A Family Without a Name
£1,750
London, Sampson Low, Martson, Searle, & Rivington, 1891.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.
A decent first UK edition of this surprisingly scarce Verne title, an adventure novel by Jules Verne about the life of a family in Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) during the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837 and 1838 that sought an independent and democratic republic for Lower Canada.
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Some light oxidising to early leaves; cloth sunned at spine, otherwise very good.
80 wood-engraved plates.
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