Published by Scribner, Welford and Armstrong, New York, 1873
Seller: P.C. Schmidt, Bookseller, Kettering, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. E. Bayard and Fferat (drawings); Pannemaker (engravings) (illustrator). Possible First Edition. book is missing front end page, light foxing to endpages; all edges gilt; Green decorated cloth, nicely illustrated with gilt, green and black illustrations; general wear to beveled edges; ---------- SATISFACTION GUARANTEED --------- FAST, COURTEOUS SERVICE ------ ALL DUSTJACKETS ARE COVERED WITH NEW CLEAR MYLAR PROTECTOR ----- Size: 5.5 x 7.5". Previous Owner Signature.
Published by J Hetzel & Co, Paris, 1880
Seller: Bailgate Books Ltd, Doncaster, United Kingdom
US$ 83.06
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Ferat, Pannemaker (illustrator). Edition Unstated. Undated, circa 1880. Ouvrage couronne par l'Academie francaise. Bibliotheque D'Education et de Recreation. Half leather with marbled boards, small bookplate for John William Hoyland annotated by Rachel Barbara Hoyland, green leather is worn with spine-label detached, boards are good but paper is worn on edges, binding sound, pages are a little darkened but clean, excellent illustrations, full page map of Afrique Australe (Southern Africa), numbered 78 (?1878). Text is in French. Estimated date only. Illustrator: Ferat, Pannemaker. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 04411110044. All our books are sent by tracked mail.
Published by Librairie Hachette, Paris, 1929
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Reprint (originally published in 1872). Octavo (27cm); red cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover, and decoration blind stamped to rear cover; gilt topstain; [iv],[1],2-204,[2]pp; black-and-white vignettes to frontispiece and throughout. Text in French. La Grande Librairie sticker to lower rear pastedown. Lightly spine-faded with light oxidation to spine titling, slight spine lean, shelf-wear, and faint tanning to page margins; Very Good. "From the 1870s on, JV's work tended to repeat itself in gradually darkening hues, though he never lost the sense of the fundamental usableness of science and technology, a sense vital to 20-century sf [science fiction], where - as with JV - usableness tends to serve as its own justification" (see Clute & Nicholls, The Encycopedia of Science Fiction, p.1277). CLUTE & NICHOLLS, p. 1277. [88417].