Jules Verne.

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Jules Verne.
Five weeks in a balloon. Voyage of discovery in Africa by three Englishmen. Ill. by Riou and de Montaut. Paris, Bibliothèque d'éducation et de récréation, J. Hetzel. S.D. (1866). Small in-8. Publisher's blue violet percaline binding "aux bouquets de roses" of the 1st type. Second plate with a cold motif in the center and in the four corners. Gilded edges. Original lemon yellow endpapers. Printed by Bonaventure and Ducessois. Hetzel catalog of two pages in fine. Illustrated first edition and very rare first single hardback of the very first illustrated volume of the Extraordinary Journeys which was published in early 1866. A sumptuous copy in a rare violet blue color with a first cover in resplendent gold! Very nice interior.
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