Description:
Verne, Jules (1828-1905) Around the World in Eighty Days. Boston: Osgood, 1873
First fully illustrated American edition, with fifty-four full-page plates, as called for, including the frontispiece, bound in publisher's salmon cloth, pictorially blocked in black and gold, beveled boards, brown endleaves and pastedowns; short tear at head of spine, foot of spine chipped with a little loss, boards somewhat worn, sewing structure failing, some plates and signatures loose, the occasional smudge, 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.
Estimate $500-700
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