Item #56493 Five Weeks In a Balloon; or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen. Jules VERNE, Gabriel, William LACKLAND, Édouard RIOU.

Five Weeks In a Balloon; or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen.

Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and Company, 1873. [Science Fiction] SECOND US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[4] 345 [5]. With 48 heliotype illustrations on 12 plates, reproducing the originals from the French edition by Riou, each with a tissue guard. Publisher's apricot cloth, titled and illustrated in black and gilt to spine and upper. Brown endpapers. Lightly browned with occasional spotting throughout. Many plates chipped and torn to margins. Final plate lacking tissue guard. Spine sunned and toned, with rubbing and water staining to cloth. Good. The author's first full-length novel, originally published in an English translation in 1869. A fantasy adventure charting the travels of a balloon over the 'dark continent,' and a satire on English books of African exploration. Item #56493

Price: £495.00

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