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VERNE, JULES. A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD. South America. [Australia]. [New Zealand].
London: George Routledge & Sons, [1880s]. 3 vols, 8vo, viii, 312; iv, 284; viii, 264pp, frontispieces, engraving to titles, 105 total engravings by Riou. Orig. decorative cloth (each vol a different color), lavishly stamped with floral block in black, spine blocked in gilt & black. Light wear to extremities, text occasionally overopened, very good & bright, housed in a handsome gold silk-covered slipcase. ¶ Early British Edition of this great three-part seafaring novel, originally entitled, Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant and later, In Search of the Castaways. 'Verne is the Lord Glenarvan of Captain Grant's Children. The work, Verne's only tender novel, was written when Verne's son was seven years old. If the book makes children cry, it also leads the childhood imagination toward a modern and scientific appreciation of the world. It has been said that this novel decided many a seafaring career. One of these was surely that of Verne's own son' (Gallagher et al. p.184). This set may be an unrecorded variant, for neither Myers nor Gallagher note copies without an explicit date. Gallagher et al. A13. Myers 34.
Offered for US$ 750.00 by: Dailey Rare Books - Book number: 333.