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A Voyage Round the World: South America.: With 71 Illustrations by Riou.
by VERNE, Jules
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: George Routledge and Sons,, 1876. First British hardcover edition, following by months a London paperback edition with fewer illustrations. Verne's Les Enfants du capitaine Grant (1867-8) was first translated into English in America as In Search of the Castaways (1873). Routledge issued the tale in Britain as three separate books, starting with this South America edition and concluding with Australia (1877) and New Zealand (1877). A number of binding variants were issued, without priority. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered on gilt ground, spine and front cover pictorially blocked in black, blind rules and publisher's device on rear cover, coated endpapers. Frontispiece and vignette title page with tissue guard, 23 plates, further wood engravings in the text. Bright binding with bumped spine ends and minor rubbing, partial splits to inner hinges, foxing to edges and initial blanks, else clean. A near-fine copy.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 172694
- Title
- A Voyage Round the World: South America.
- Author
- VERNE, Jules
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- Place of Publication
- London: George Routledge and Sons,
- Date Published
- 1876
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Vignette
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- Edges
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- New
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Spine
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