1879 Rare First Edition Book - The Exploration of the World by JULES VERNE.

 

Author: Jules Verne. 
Title:  The Exploration of the World. Celebrated Travels and Travellers.
Publisher : London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1879. First UK Edition.
Language: Text in English.
Size : 8.5 " X 6 ".
Pages : xix-432 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good half leather decorated binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, rare light foxing and staining - as shown).  
Illustrations: Complete with 59 illustrations by L Benett and P Philippoteaux and 50 fac-similes of ancient drawings. 

Estimate (USD 300 - USD 500)

The book: A very nice first edition of a rare Jules Verne's Work.

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).