FIVE WEEKS IN A BALLOON; Or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa, by Three Englishmen, Compiled in French by Jules Verne from the Original Notes of Dr. Ferguson; and Done into English by "William Lackland"
D. Appleton: NY, 1869. Item #96-7026
8 x 5", cloth, 345pp, frontispiece, five plates, 12 page publisher's catalog, blue pebbled cloth w/gilt device of elephant towing balloon on front board, 8 works listed in "New Works", backstrip missing, covers detached, light foxing to page margins, a few leaves dogeared, closed tear to frontispiece, a couple plates loose, unknown binding (but consistant to first edition in size, design, etc), poor condition but FIRST EDITION OF AUTHOR'S FIRST WORK IN ENGLISH.
Price: $2,000.00
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