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Description : Verne (Jules). Five Weeks in a Balloon. A Voyage of Exploration and Discovery in Central Africa. From the French... with sixty-four Illustrations by Riou, Sampson Low, 2nd UK ed., 1874, thirty-three wood engraved plates, letterpress illustrations, some full-page, 48pp. publishers catalogue dated October 1873 at rear, some light marks, hinges split, all edges gilt, original pictorial cloth gilt, a little rubbed and scuffed, some fraying to corners and head and foot of spine, 8vo First Sampson Low edition, and second UK edition, of Verne's first book (first published in French in 1863), a fantasy of balloon travel over the African continent and a satire on English books on African travel. The first UK edition was published in 1870 by Chapman & Hall and is now virtually impossible to find. This Sampson Low edition is also scarce (unlisted in Myers), and considerably more difficult to find than either Appleton's first edition in English (New York, 1869), or James Osgood's fully illustrated edition (Boston, 1873). (1)
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