First edition

Jules VERNE

Les voyageurs du XIXe siècle

J. Hetzel, Paris 1880, Grd. in-8 (18x28,2cm), 428pp., relié.

First illustrated edition of 51 drawings by Benett and 57 facsimiles and cards by Mathis and Morieu. In fine catalog AI of 1880, particularity which distinguishes the first edition.
Red editor cardboard "to the Ptolemaic armillary sphere". Brown guards. second flat Engel type b with rosette, [...]

600 €

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Jules VERNE

Les grands navigateurs du XVIIIe siècle

Hetzel, Paris 1888, Grd. in 8 (18x28cm), 464pp., relié.

First illustrated edition of 118 etchings by Philippoteaux and engraved by Hildibrand, including 4 in-text cards, and 13 full-page cards, and a double page. EL catalog for the year 1889.
Editor's cartonage says "A Ptolemaic sphere" of red color. Superb first plate with very clear golds, but [...]

650 €

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First edition, Signed book

Henry de MONFREID

Le récif maudit

Flammarion, Paris 1959, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition on current paper.
Back slightly wrinkled, small tears without gravity margins of boards.
Autograph signed by Henry de Monfreid to Monsieur Deshayes.

50 €

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First edition

Jules DUMONT D'URVILLE & Clément-Adrien [...]

Voyage au pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée, exécuté par ...

Gide, Paris 1841 - 1846, In-8, 10 tomes reliés en 5 volumes.

first edition of Jules Dumont d'Urville's third voyage around the world, completed two years before his tragic death in the first French railway disaster.
The corvettes L'Astrolabe, commanded by Dumont d'Urville, and La Zélée, commanded by Charles Hector Jacquinot, left Toulon September 7, [...]

5 800 €

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First edition, Signed book

Paul-Emile VICTOR

La voie lactée

Plon, Paris 1974, 17,5x23,5cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

First edition.
Binding of the publisher in full blue canvas, smooth back, complete copy of his rhodoïd which has only very slight marginal tears without gravity.
Iconography.
Precious autograph dated and signed by Paul-Emile Victor to Haroun Tazieff affectionately nicknamed Garouk.

150 €

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First edition

Charles VAN TENAC

Histoire générale de la marine comprenant les naufrages célèbres, les voyages autour du monde, ...

Eugène et Victor Penaud frères, Paris 1847 (S.d), Fort et Grd. in-8 (17x25,7cm), 400pp. et 400pp. et 400pp. et 398pp., 4 tomes en 2 volumes reliés.

First edition
Bindings half glossy calf green medium time. Smooth backs decorated with cold and hot nets, rollers. Title and volume pieces of black veal.

600 €

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First edition

Alfred DES ESSARTS

L'univers illustré

Librairie Louis Janet, Paris 1850 (S.d.), In-8 (16x24cm), 216pp., relié.

First edition illustrated with a beautiful hand-painted frontispiece depicting several women in costumes, 16 hand-colored costume boards on a sepia background, and lamp-ends on wood.
Gold editor's cardboard in full marine percaline. Smooth back richly decorated with 2 carved plates. Special [...]

260 €

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First edition

Rodolphe TOPFFER

Nouveaux voyages en zigzag à la Grande Chartreuse, autour du Mont Blanc dans les vallées ...

Victor Lecou, Paris 1854, 17,5x27,5cm, relié.

First edition and first edition of the illustrations.
Binding half black shagreen, back with four nerves adorned with boxes decorated with cold florets, framing of cold nets on the black cardboard plates, guards and contreplats of white silk moire marginally dirty, all golden [...]

150 €

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