A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

by Jules Verne, Edouard Riou

$25,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

London: Griffith and Farran, 1872 but actually 1871 . First British edition and first English translation of one of Jules Verne's most famous novels. viii, 384, 8 pp. with eight advertising pages at rear, illustrated with 52 wood engravings by Riou. Bound in publisher's cobalt blue cloth with pictorial stamping in black and gilt, peach endpapers. Very Good+ with heavily sunned and rubbed spine with restoration at head and

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