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Cloth. Condizione: Fair. First edition. The scarce first UK edition of Jules Verne's classic works of nineteenth century science fiction, 'From the Earth to the Moon' and 'Around the Moon'. The first UK edition of two classic science fiction novels by Jules Verne: 'De la Terre a la Lune' (1865) and its sequel, 'Autour de la Lune' (1870).These works were first combined in their original French in 1872, with this work being the first English language edition.Translated from the original French by Louis Mercier and Eleanor E. King.Illustrated with a frontispiece and seventy-seven plates. Collated, lacking one plate.Written more than a century before the Apollo mission, Verne's classic science fiction work is a somewhat prophetic account of man's first voyage to the moon.Verne's novel tells the story of a group named the Baltimore Gun Club, who attempt to build an enormous space gun in order to launch three people, in a projectile, to land on the moon.Verne's novel was referred to by Neil Armstrong during the 23rd July 1969 return journey of the Apollo 11, during a television broadcast. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Boards bright. Lacking back strip. Boards weakly held by a single cord each. Front free endpaper and frontispiece detached and loosely inserted. Internally, binding tender, with first 33 pages working loose. Pages bright, with the odd instance of spotting and light handling marks, most concentrated to pages surrounding plates. Lacking one plate. Two plates detached and loosely inserted. Fair. Not Stated (illustratore). book.…

Condizione: Very Good-. First Edition. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1874. First Edition Thus. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's blue decorative cloth stamped in blue, brown coated endpapers; viii,142pp.; frontispiece and twenty-three plates (collated complete). Ex-Free Public Library of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, with their slightly later gift ex libris to front pastedown from Mrs. W.D. Worthingon accomplished in manuscript, with Worthington's own private library label also on front pastedown, otherwise free of library markings, cloth a bit worn with small loss at spine crown, spine cloth toned, contents remain clean and sound. About Very Good overall. Early authorized reprint of the first portion of "From Earth to the Moon," "issued in this form and under this title to meet an unauthorized reprint, under a very similar name, of this precise section of the work mentioned" (Publisher's Note on title page verso.). Myers, p. 34; Taves & Michaluk, p. 113. …