N.D. Circa 1901; Jules Verne; Deluxe Edition; Paris, Collection Hetzel; Au Steamer Cover Series, Original Cloth by Paul Souze; Illustrated by George Roux; 218/1 Pages; w7.2"xh10.8"; Very Rare!

• Brilliant Original red cloth, with color illustrated front, decorated back board in black, pretty decorated binding in brown, gold gilded page edges, green/blue end pages, with a lovely frontispiece, illustrated title page, a bunch of pretty b/w illustrations, Six pretty color plates, and a Great Classic from the Legendary Author; Fine Display Book!

• The Sea Serpent: The Yarns of Jean Marie Cabidoulin (French: Les Histoires de Jean-Marie Cabidoulin, lit. The Stories of Jean-Marie Cabidoulin) is an adventure novel by French author Jules Verne first published in 1901. The story centers on a French whaling ship, the St. Enoch, which sets out from Le Havre on a voyage to kill whales for their meat and oil. The ship's cooper is the eponymous Cabidoulin, a firm believer in the existence of a giant serpent with a habit of dragging vessels to their doom.

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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.