1886 Rare Books - Abandoned (The Mysterious Island) by Jules Verne. Illustrated.

Author: Jules Verne. W. H. G. Kingston, translator.
Title:  The Mysterious Island (Part II): Abandoned. Illustrated.
Publisher:  London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1886. Fourth Edition (stated).
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7.5 " X 6 ".
Pages: viii-304 pages + publisher's catalog.
Binding: Attractive and very good original full-cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed, with illustrated boards - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, some foxing mainly on the preliminary and last pages - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with all the full-page illustrations.

The book: Rare and attractive fourth edition of "The Mysterious Island (Part II): Abandoned" by Jules Verne. This book is part of the famous adventure series by Verne, first published in French in 1874. It is one of the novels that showcases Verne's ability to mix a plot full of adventure and twists with passages of technical, geographic, and historic description. The book gives readers a glimpse of the exploration and survival adventures of the characters on a mysterious island.

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).