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1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated

1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated

$275 USD - $275 USD
$275 USD
$275 USD - $275 USD
$275 USD

Author: Jules Verne. Edouard Riou, illustrator.
Title: Five Weeks in a Balloon. A Voyage of Exploration and Discovery in Central Africa. With Sixty-Four Illustrations by Riou.
Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1887. Sixth Edition (stated).
Language: Text in English
Size: 7.5 x 5.5 inches. 
Pages: viii-352 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good original publisher full-cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly scuffed - as shown) under a protective, removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, rare foxing and toning, Exlibris of a previous owner on the first endpaper, endpapers replaced by a previous owner - as shown).
Illustration: Profusely and nicely illustrated with 64 in-text and full-page illustrations by Riou.Complete.

Estimate: (USD 300-400).

The book: Rare and attractive sixth edition of Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen (French: Cinq semaines en ballon), the famous adventure novel by Jules Verne, first published in French in 1863. It is the first novel in which he perfected the "ingredients" of his later work, skillfully mixing a plot full of adventure and twists that hold the reader's interest with passages of technical, geographic, and historical description. The book gives readers a glimpse of the exploration of Africa, which was still not completely known to Europeans of the time, with explorers travelling all over the continent in search of its secrets.

The author: Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. Verne was born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, where he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage.

The illustrator: Édouard Riou (2 December 1833 – 27 January 1900) was a French illustrator who illustrated six novels by Jules Verne, as well as several other well-known works.