Verne (Jules) The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1880.

First UK edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth stamped in black and lettered in gilt.

A substantial non-fiction work surveying major voyages of discovery, Cook, Bougainville, La Pérouse and others, combining Verne’s narrative flair with detailed geography, maps and illustrations.