Verne (Jules) The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
£195
London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1881.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original terracotta cloth stamped in black & gilt.
The third and final volume of Verne’s non-fiction trilogy ‘Celebrated Travels and Travellers,’ following The Exploration of the World and The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century; this volume surveys the exploits of real nineteenth-century explorers across the Arctic, Africa and beyond.
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Some very minor foxing and toning, ink ownership stamp to top edge of half-title; cloth slightly softened at head of spine but overall a very good, bright copy.
Plates, illustrations, maps and facsimiles.
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