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187523320London: George Routledge and Sons 1875. First U.K. Edition. Small octavo 19.5cm.; original blue pictorial cloth embossed in black and gilt; iv269116pp.; text illus. throughout. General minor shelf wear corners a bit bumped contemporary ownership signature to front pastedown else a Very Good and sound copy. Second volume of "The Adventures of Captain Hatteras" preceded by The English at the North Pole. George Routledge and Sons unknown books
18671277116Paris: ; J. Hetzel et Cie. Bibliotheque d'Education et de Recreation 1867. Hardcover. 4to. 467pp. 220pp.; VG-; 1/4 bound red leather spine with gilt lettering marbled boards endpapers; rebound; mild shelfwear primarily to board edges and corners; two volumes bound together pagination not continuous; moderate foxing throughout; Voyage au centre de la Terre has a separate half-title and title page; Voyages et aventures du capitaine Hatteras has the frontispiece; text in French; shelved case 8. 1277116. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. ; J. Hetzel et Cie. Bibliotheque d'Education et de Recreation hardcover books
189513602London: R.E. King Printer for Divine Hall & Co. Mossel Bay and Oudtshoorn South Africa 1895. First Edition. Very Good. 8vo 7.25x5in; vii 184 pp. 1 advertisement; Red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine blind stamped designs with gilt publisher design on front fore edge of covers beveled top edge gilt and all edges untrimmed; Shelf wear to covers edges and corners covers soiled with stain spots corners bumped and worn through spine darken with soling stain spots and repaired tears to top and bottom both hinges cracked and loose first pages loose text pages age darken and fragile due to quality of paper; Tipped in light green card with the book inscribed to Steve Fossett from Alex Tai dated April 5 2004 "Dear Steve On the day you and your team smashing the unassisted sailing record around the world. An original Verne on achieving the new "Sub Sixty Jules Verne" Yours Inspired Alex Tai" And handwritten letter dated the same "Dear Steve For 80 Days read less than 60!! Verne's fiction proves that fact can BE more inspiring. Well done to you and your team this year has the makings of one of your greatest. Best Wishes Alex Tai". A very rare book printed for a South African publisher and only one related copy found on WorldCat. Taves/Michaluk p. 138. Jules Verne 1828-1905 a French author famous for his many novels of adventures exploration and the future and the "Father of science fiction". In 1872 the serialized version of "Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours" first appeared in print. This was a grand travel adventure that capture the public interest when world travel was becoming easier. The printer Richard Edward King London published this book around 1895. It appears that an edition was printed for Divine Hall with special red cloth binding as described above. Divine Hall & Co. were general merchants gun dealers and dealers in other items in the communities of Mossel Bay and Oudtshoorn from according to South African directories.Steve Fossett 1944-2007 was a successful commodities trader and an adventurer that set world records in balloons sailboats gliders and unique powered aircraft. In 2002 he was the first person to solo circumnavigate the world in a balloon uninterrupted and unrefueled and in 2005 made a solo nonstop unrefueled flight around the world in the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer sponsored by Richard Branson. In the 1980's Fossett began developing a library collection of books on adventure and exploration. He enlisted the services of an experienced bookseller to assist in building a collection of more than 2000 volumes focusing on significant and authoritative accounts of aeronautics polar Asian Australasian circumnavigation's mountaineering and others. In September 2007 Fossett disappeared on a solo flight in a light aircraft over the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains. After an extensive search the wreckage was found by hikers a year later along the rugged Mt. Ritter range about 10 miles east of Yosemite National Park. R.E. King, Printer for Divine, Hall & Co., Mossel Bay and Oudtshoorn, South Africa unknown books
1941WRCAM48307Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington 1941. vii1192pp. plus three full-page illustrations and twenty-two maps most folding. Folding frontispiece. Quarto. Modern three quarter calf and marbled boards gilt leather spine labels t.e.g. Front board slightly bowed. Bookplate on rear pastedown. A touch of light scattered foxing. Very good. The introductory material explains the process by which the Spanish colonized Florida while the bulk of the text explains the evolution of the defense system of Florida from the early defenses of St. Augustine up through the end of the French and Indian War when the Spanish were forced to give up claims to Florida to the British. The many maps and plans are mainly devoted to fortresses. Carnegie Institution of Washington hardcover books
199164643New York: Jonathan A. Hill 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 50 black and white illustrations including a facsimile of the frontispiece portrait of Sir Isaac Newton taken from the original engraving by George Vertue for the third edition of the Principia. New York: Jonathan A. Hill 1991. First edition - deluxe issue limited to 100 copies bound in quarter goatskin by hand and containing a re-strike from the original engraved copper plate of the famous frontispiece of Newton. "The Verne L. Roberts collection is devoted to rare and important books in the fields of mechanics biomechanics the strength of materials and the history of technology. This is one of the most remarkable private libraries to be formed in recent decades and the books and manuscripts in this catalogue including many of the classics of physics demonstrate the origins of these fields of science and their development through the ensuing three centuries. The roots of these sciences are also illustrated through a number of important 15th and 16th century books. The catalogue describes approximately 1200 items. The extensive bibliographical and historical descriptions of the books and authors document and define the growth and development of ideas in the history of science and technology. Many of the books are noted for their rarity and have not hitherto been described adequately from a historical or bibliographical point of view. Quarto. Original pictorial paper-covered boards over the blue goatskin spine with silver titles. A fine copy. Jonathan A. Hill hardcover books
187423316New York: Scribner Armstrong & Co 1874. First American Edition. Octavo 19.5cm.; original green decorative cloth embossed in blind and gilt; viii232pp.; frontispiece 47 plates. Light shelf wear spine a hint cocked and gilt very slightly dulled ownership signature effaced on front free endpaper else a Very Good or better copy. Scribner, Armstrong & Co unknown books
1890biblio119iv373 pages with eighty-one plates including frontispiece. Octavo 8 1/2" x 6" bound in the variant mustard cloth with spine and cover lettering in gilt and black pictorial on spine and cover. Translated from the French by A Estoclet. Illustrations by George Roux. First American edition preceding the English edition.<br /><br />Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist poet and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. Verne was born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes where he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages Extraordinaires a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days. Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions where he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books not least because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels are often reprinted. Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979 between the English-language writers Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare and probably was the most-translated during the 1960s and 1970s. He is one of the authors sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction" as are H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br /> Corners gently bumped light age toning to preliminary pages some internal fingering end paper renewed spine darkened else a very good copy. Cassell Publishing Company hardcover books
187929713London: George Routledge and Sons 1879. 1st thus Taves-Michaluk V011. This edition not in Myers though see entry 54 for the 1st US edition of 1873 & other subsequent editions known to them. Blue cloth binding blocked in gilt & black. Bevelled edges. Pale yellow eps. "Every Boy's Library" stamped to top of front board. VG spine slightly darkened/po name stamp to blank side of frontis. 254 pp. Frontis. 8vo. 17.5 cm x 11.5 cm. <br/><br/>Very scarce translation of Verne's classic. much more so than the Towle which is that usually encountered. George Routledge and Sons hardcover books
1883106081883. A Californian Mystery. Translated by W. J. Gordon. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons n.d. 1883. Original aqua-grey cloth pictorially decorated in black. First American hardbound edition of this tale originally published the year before as L'ECOLE DES ROBINSONS. The New York Times panned this effort as cited in T&M: M. Jules Verne has never written books strongly marked with common sense; they have on the contrary offered unusual examples of the violation of all sensible ideas and the successful violation. But when it comes to Godfrey Morgan's trip around the world the submergeable steamer the plot to give him a taste of that Robinson Crusoe life of which he had dreamed the strain is too great. We are eager to be fooled but the fooling must have some semblance of art; it must not be bald imbecility. Jules Verne has no right to inveigle the public into buying such a book on the strength of his former novels; it is an abuse of the good-nature of the public. Scribner would not issue GODFREY MORGAN again. George Munro managed as usual to produce the first edition in English for his self-wrappered "Seaside Library" in January 1883; Sampson Low's British edition fully illustrated came out in March of that year followed by this Scribner edition from the British sheets in October. Whereas the British edition shows on its front cover Godfrey firing on lions and tigers from his perch inside a tree the Scribner edition shows Tartlet stumbling as he runs from a hungry crocodile. This copy is in aqua-grey cloth; we have also seen dark brown and light orange-brown no priority. It is a very good-plus copy with very light wear at the spine ends and very minor darkening of the cloth. Taves & Michaluk V024; Myers 29. unknown books
187893561878. Translated by Ellen E. Frewer. With Numerous Illustrations. London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1878. Original olive green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt all edges gilt. First English Edition of this tale in which the heroes are carried away through space upon the comet "Gallia" visiting much of the solar system. The cover but not the title page bears the sub-title "The Career of a Comet." In September 1877 George Munro issued a pirated wrappered version of this tale in their "Seaside Library"; a month later the Philadelphia firm of Claxton Remsen & Haffelfinger issued the first half of this tale in a clothÂbound volume. Then in November 1877 though dated 1878 this authorized Sampson Low edition in England and an authorized Scribner Armstrong edition were both published the entire tale not just the first half. This copy is in olive green cloth; we have also seen terra-cotta and light lilac-brown no priority. Condition is very good spine a bit dull; the volume has been recased within its original binding preserving the original endpapers reinforced at the inner hinges. This is one of Verne's most intriguing space exploration tales. Taves & Michaluk V016; Edwards 16. unknown books
1909136551909. Illustrated. London: Grant Richards 1909. Original dark blue cloth pictorially decorated in ochre yellow and light blue. First British Edition and first edition in the English language. This is a tale of a meteor's close brush with Earth with the main events taking place in Virginia. The story had first appeared in a French daily journal in March-April 1908 -- three years after Verne's death. Despite the date 1909 on the title verso this book was actually published in November 1908. Though sited in America the book was not published in the United States. This is a handsome volume with one of the 24 Roux plates reproduced upon the decorative front cover. This copy is near-fine contemporary school prize label on the front paste-down light foxing throughout on this thick wove paper rear endpaper cracked. Taves & Michaluk V060; Myers 9. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1833D270Paris: Bibliotheque d'Education et de Recreation 1833. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Benett. Illustrated red cloth with elaborate detail stamped in gilt black and blind all edges gilt; pp. 4 half-title p. illus. half-title p. title-p. 410 10 ads richly illustrated throughout. First illustrated edition. Light scuffing along joints edges of boards rear board; spine tips frayed. VG with bright gilt tight binding clean text block. Text in French. Lovely and very cool! <br/><br/> Bibliotheque d'Education et de Recreation hardcover books
1873JC8942Philadelphia: Porter & Coates 1873. Hardcover. Good. Original pictorial brown cloth stamped in gilt on spine; 12mo; pp. xvi 315 1 4 ads plus frontispiece and 11 plates. Spine tips and corners bumped and frayed; rear board lightly soiled; hinges tender; text block rolled with upper board extending about 3/8 inches beyond lower. <br/><br/> Porter & Coates hardcover books
2376Prague. Státní nakladatelství dìtské knihy. 1961. 4to. 295 4 pp. with 30 full page 2 repeated colour collages and several colour head pieces. Illustrated endpapers. Original cloth with original dust jacket designed by A. Hoffmeister. unknown books
1874111403Boston: William F. Gill and Company 1874. Octavo pp. 1-2 3-5 6 7-285 286: blank fly leaf at front five inserted plates original pictorial terra cotta cloth front and spine panels stamped in black and gold slate coated endpapers. First U.S. edition Collects "A Drama in Mid-Air" a.k.a. "A Drama in the Air" "Dr. Ox's Hobby" a.k.a. "Dr. Ox's Experiment" "Master Zachary" a.k.a. "Master Zacharius" and "A Winter Among the Ice-Fields a.k.a. "A Winter Amid the Ice" by Verne and "Fortieth French Ascent of Mont Blanc" by Paul Verne. Apparently the only edition with English translation by A. L. Alger. This edition mostly likely unauthorized may have preceded the "authorized" 1874 Osgood edition published as DR. OX'S EXPERIMENT AND OTHER STORIES. The Gill edition was advertised as "now ready" on 11 July 1874. The Osgood edition with contents translated by George M. Towle was published in late June or early July 1874. Both American editions preceded Sampson Low's British edition which was published in November 1874. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2232. Bleiler 1978 p. 199. Reginald 14624. Myers 16. Taves and Michaluk V012. Cloth lightly worn at spine ends and lower corners mild soiling to rear cover several small creases to corners of free endpapers a very good copy with bright cover stamping. #111403 William F. Gill and Company unknown books
1874135557New York: Scribner 1874. Octavo pp. 1-4 i-iii iv-v vi-vii viii 1 2-232 233-234: ads note: first leaf is a blank fly leaves at front and rear 48 illustrations by J. Ferat original pictorial terra cotta cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind rear panel stamped in blind yellow endpapers. First authorized U.S. edition first printing. This Scribner Armstrong edition the first printing which advertises only two titles A JOURNEY TO THE MOON and A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH on the verso of the title leaf and on the recto and verso of the leaf of ads at rear was issued the same day the unauthorized edition of MERIDIANA was published in Boston by Henry L. Shepard & Co. as ADVENTURES IN THE LAND OF THE BEHEMOTH. Prior to publishing this edition Scribner Welford & Armstrong imported sheets of the British 1872 Sampson Low edition title page dated 1873 printed by Gilbert and Rivington and bound in England by Burn & Co. with a cancel title leaf mounted on a stub this issue was perhaps prepared quickly to precede or compete with the Shepard's unauthorized edition. Myers 39. Taves and Michaluk V009. Cloth lightly worn and frayed at spine ends some rubbing to cloth along bottom edges top edge of text block a bit dusty a very good copy with bright stamping and tight clean interior. #135557 Scribner unknown books
1875148056New York: Scribner 1875. Octavo pp. 1-4 1 2-110 111: map 112: ads fly leaves at front and rear 48 illustrations 1 full-page map original decorated brown cloth front panel stamped in gold and ruled in blind spine panel stamped in gold rear panel ruled in blind yellow endpapers. First authorized U.S. edition. The Henry L. Shepard 1874 piracy titled SHIPWRECKED IN THE AIR may have preceded this Scribner Armstrong edition by a few days. The Scribner Armstrong edition is dated 1875 on the title page but the book was issued in late October 1874. It was copyrighted 26 October 1874 and Scribner Armstrong filed two deposit copies on 31 October 1874. WRECKED IN THE AIR the first of three parts of THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND was issued simultaneously in cloth and in pictorial wrappers the latter binding state now rarely encountered. WRECKED IN THE AIR the only part of THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND issued by Scribner Armstrong in a two-column format perhaps utilizing the plates of the SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE printing was rushed into print to compete with the 1874 Shepard piracy. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2234. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 767. Suvin Victorian Science Fiction in the UK p. 19. Bleiler 1978 p. 199. Myers 42. Taves and Michaluk V013. Early owner's gift inscription dated 1874 on the front flyleaf. Cloth worn at spine ends and corner tips a very good copy. #148056 Scribner unknown books
1899139637Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co. 1899. Octavo pp. 3-5 6-161 163; 145 146-192 111 112-155 156-158: ads original pictorial green cloth front panel stamped in black white and light brown spine panel stamped in black and gold pictorial endpapers. First U.S hardcover edition. UN BILLET DE LOTERIE 1886 was first published in English in 1886 by George Munro of New York in two paperbound volumes as part of his "Seaside Library" the first volume was published by July 1886 and the second by December 1886. In August 1886 Sampson Low published the first British edition as THE LOTTERY TICKET. The plates of Munro's books were acquired by Donohue of Chicago who published this hardcover edition. Though mentioning only "Ticket No. 9672" on the binding and title page the book also includes parts of "Seaside Library" books by other authors including a selection of stories by Poe. Taves & Michaluk V031. Cloth worn at spine ends and corner tips gold stamping on spine panel quite tarnished private owner's bookplate affixed to front free endpaper small bookstore price sticker affixed to verso of front free endpaper a good copy of an uncommon book. #139637 M. A. Donohue & Co. unknown books
19051284632Paris: Collection Hetzel 1905. small 4to. 204pp.; VG; bound in red cloth gilt lettering on spine polychrome aux feuilles d'acanthe; mild shelfwear; age-toning to pages; ownership markings on front pastedown; LP consignment; shelved case 8. 1284632. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Collection Hetzel unknown books
B20621-SFSampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington. Collectible - Acceptable. 1883 Sampson Low 2nd printing of 1st English edition green cloth with gilt and black decorative cover gilt top edge wear to corners and spine ends bookplate to front pastedown small stamp and owner pencil name to fep interior is clean and sound b/w plates no dust jacket. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington hardcover books
1878164619New York: George Munro 1878. Octavo pp. i-v vi 9 10-323 324: blank i-ii: ads note: text complete despite gap in pagination fly leaves at front and rear twenty inserted plates including one map original green pebbled cloth front and rear panels stamped in blind spine panel stamped in gold cream endpapers. First edition in English. Published in France as UN CAPITAINE DE QUINZE ANS 1878. This George Munro piracy published in November 1878 preceded the fully illustrated authorized Sampson Low and Charles Scribner editions both dated 1879 on their title pages but both published in December 1878. "DICK SANDS: THE BOY CAPTAIN is a classic children's novel with a strong plot and plenty of action. Some of its descriptive passages are excellent and many of them are instructive. The bits relating to equatorial Africa and the slave trade are scrupulously and dreadfully accurate as Verne makes sure to indicate by giving his sources and by quoting an extract from an account of the travels of Cameron." - Jules-Verne Jules Verne p. 138. Myers 15. Taves and Michaluk V018. Cloth worn at spine ends and corner tips some rubbing along outer joints and fore-edges some scuffing and spotting to cloth a sound good copy. #164619 George Munro unknown books
246704Paris: Hetzel. hardcover. very good. Frontispiece woodcut on title page and black & white illustrations throughout by MM. de Neuville et L. Benett. 211pp. small 4to half crimson morocco ornately gilt spine a.e.g. Paris: Collection Hetzel no date ca. 1890. Very good .<br/><br/> Les Voyages Extraordinaires.<br/><br/> Hetzel unknown books
110077Hetzel. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Early original edition very good in hard covers. An early appearance of one of the most famous novels of Mr. Verne recounting the varied and wonderful adventure of Phileas Fogg and the faithful Passepartout. Published in the UK and the US under the title "Around the World in Eighty Days. Hetzel hardcover books
003360Collection Hetzel. Paris no date. Bibliotheque d'education et de Receation J. Hetzel et Cie. B&w illustrations by De Neuville and L. Benett. Book near fine except for slight discoloration on fly title tiny bookshop stamp on fly title tiny tear near the top of front joint front board very slightly bowed outward. Collection Hetzel unknown books
246705Paris: J. Hetzel. hardcover. very good. Frontispiece and numerous black & white woodcuts throughout the text by J. Ferat & engraved by Ch. Barbant some plates delicately colored. 368pp. Short 4to bound in 1/2 crimson morocco red cloth ornately gilt spine a.e.g. Paris: j. Hetzel no date ca. 1910. Very good . A very good copy.<br/><br/> Les Voyages Extraordinaires.<br/><br/> J. Hetzel unknown books
