Five Weeks In a Balloon; or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa

by Three Englishmen by Jules Verne, Gabriel, William Lackland, Édouard Riou

£325 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

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

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