The Giant Raft: Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon [and] The Cryptogram

Published by New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886

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Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United KingdomAdrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB

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[Amazon Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, an early edition. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 254 [4]. With a folding map and 79 engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt and black titles and decoration to spine, and black titles to upper. Bookplate to front pastedown. Lightly toned throughout. Spine toned with heavy wear and fraying to head and tail. Very good. A Peruvian man decides to use the Amazon river to travel to Brazil to marry off his daughter, and to collect proof that he is innocent of a crime committed long ago. First published in two volumes in 1881-82, and first published in a single volume in 1884.

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Title
The Giant Raft: Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon [and] The Cryptogram
Author
VERNE, Jules [Gabriel] (1828-1905), [GORDON, W.J., translator], [BENETT, Léon, illustrator]
Publisher
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886
Binding
Soft cover
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Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB

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Adrian Harrington Ltd occupies the rare book room on the first floor of the iconic Hall's Bookshop in Royal Tunbridge Wells which was established in 1898. We are a large high street bookshop with a stock of tens of thousands of books, prints, maps and ephemeral items. Adrian Harrington specialise in Literature, modern first editions, Ian Fleming, children's books, history, travel, and general antiquarian books. Opening hours are Monday - Saturday 9.30am - 5.30pm. Visit our website at www.harringtonbooks.co.uk…

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