1885; Jules Verne; 1st Book/Deluxe Edition, Voyages Extraordinaires Series; Paris, Collection Hetzel, Bibliotheque d'Education et de Recreation; A La Banniere Cover Series, Original Cloth by Auguste Souze; Illustrated by Leon Benett; 552 Pages +8 of Ads; w7.4"xh11"; Very Rare!

• Brilliant folio Original red cloth with beveled cover edges, fine gold/silver/black illustrated front, decorated back board in black, pretty gold decorated binding, gold gilded page edges, green end pages, with a lovely frontispiece, illustrated title page, with 109 other fine illustrations, and a Great Read from the Legendary Author; Fine Display Book!

• Mathias Sandorf is an 1885 adventure book by the French writer Jules Verne first serialized in Le Temps in 1885. It employs many of the devices that had served well in his earlier novels: islands, cryptograms, surprise revelations of identity, technically advanced hardware and a solitary figure bent on revenge. Verne planned Mathias Sandorf as the Mediterranean adventure of his series of novels called Voyages extraordinaires. He dedicated the novel to the memory of Alexandre Dumas.

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• In Trieste in 1867, two petty criminals, Sarcany and Zirone, discover a carrier pigeon bearing a ciphered message. Locating the recipient of the cipher, they devise a plan to take advantage of their discovery. Sarcany tells Silas Toronthal, a corrupt banker, that he suspects the cipher is part of a plot to liberate Hungary from Habsburg-Austrian rule. Together they form a plan to unlock the cipher and deliver the evidence to the police in exchange for a reward. The three Hungarian conspirators, Count Mathias Sandorf, Stephen Bathory and Ladislas Zathmar (in their Hungarian form: Sándor Mátyás, Báthory István and Szatmári László) are arrested and sentenced to death. 
  
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• Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). His novels, always well documented, are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account the technological advances of the time.