Illustrated by henri meyer (2 risultati)

4to. 10.75 x 7.5 inches. [ii] + 376 pp. Bound in original red cloth, gilt, spine in compartments. Spine rebacked keeping original. Extremities worn, including corners, and a little water stained and flyleaves browned; otherwise a very good copy with clean interior. 1890 gift inscription on first free endpaper. Illustrated throughout by engravings, including engraved title and title page vignette. An early French edition of the seventeenth of fifty four, Voyages extraordinaires adventure novels published 1863-1905, in the lifetime of Jules Verne (1828-1905). The first edition of Un capitaine de quinze ans whose standard English title is Dick Sand, A captain at Fifteen, was published 1878, and in English in the same year. It as a story of African slavery with other themes of whaling and entomology. The designs for the engravings of Charles Barbant were by the French caricaturist and illustrator, Henri Meyer (1841-99) and are one of his most notable Jules Verne commissions for the publishers, Hetzel ART / LITERATURE NOVELS LIT. FICTION FRENCH 19TH CENTURY ART / LITERATURE.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good+. First Edition. Hardcover 1879 1st fully illustrated edition with 90 full-page plate illustrations, 1 map + title page & frontispiece illustrations in decorated brown cloth, lacks the illustration listed for p. 201 (as most copies - if not all - do) & for p. 394 but there is no text loss in either place, book is cocked and the boards show moderate wear to edges & extremities with the rear board rubbed & with fraying to the cloth at the ends & corners, name & number (partially crossed-out) to pastedown & endpapers, some staining to initial page foredges, an overall bright nice copy with no foxing & tight hinges, lacking one illustration - quite scarce Verne title; 8vo; 486pp + 26pp ads, undated.…