First edition, first issue of one of the first Jules Verne novels!
A Floating City, and the Blockade Runners by Jules Verne.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, Seale and Company, 1874.
As noted in The Jules Verne Encyclopedia, V08.
This book has been protected in a plastic cover.
All plates present.
Expert contemporary rebinding. Marbled board. Quarter leather. Gilt lettering. Raised bands on spine.
Former owner’s bookplate. Wear to covers. Some foxing, most notably on frontispiece and title page.
286 pages.
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