1875 Rare Second Edition - JULES VERNE - Dr. Ox's Experiment and Other Stories.
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Author : Jules Verne.
Title : Dr Ox's Experiment and Other Stories. (including: "Dr. Ox's Experiment", "Master Zacharius", "A Drama in the Air", "A Winter amid the Ice" & "Ascent of Mont Blanc").
Publisher : London, Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1875. Second Edition (stated).
Language : Text in English.
Size : 8" X 6".
Pages : 332 pages.
Binding : Very good and attractive full Victorian decorated cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn, soiled and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content : Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare foxing and staining).
Illustration : Profusely and nicely illustrated with 59 illustrations.
The book : Rare and attractive second edition of Dr Ox's Experiment and Other Stories. Dr. Ox's Experiment (French: Une fantaisie du docteur Ox, "A Fantasy of Doctor Ox") is a humorous science fiction short story by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1872. It describes an experiment by one Dr. Ox, and is inspired by the real or alleged effects of oxygen on living things.
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. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).