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VERNE, Jules (1828-1905). The Tour of the World in Eighty Days. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1873.
12mo. Frontispiece sketch of the Le Saint Michel after Verne. Original pictorial reddish-brown cloth stamped and lettered in gilt, all edges stained red, black coated endpapers (spine very gently darkened, few tiny spots to upper cover, else fine).
FIRST BRITISH EDITION, published the previous year in French, “that provoked an interest in world circumference travel records that lasted to the age of space travel, a period of nearly 100 years” (Myers). A NEAR FINE COPY, unusual in this condition. Myers 54.