Celestial Spaces] Hector Servadac by Jules Verne. Illustrations by P. Philippoteaux. Paris, Bibliothèque d'Éducation et de Récréation, J. Hetzel et Cie, sd (ca 1878). Large double in-8°. Publisher's full cobalt blue percaline boards "with two elephants". Lenègre Binder. Gilt edges. Blue endpapers. Printed by Gauthier-Villars. Catalogue "J" for 1877-1878. First illustrated edition and second hardback, concomitant with the version "au monde solaire". Superb copy (!) in a colour that we will not hesitate to qualify as very rare for this title in this binding. This version "aux deux éléphants" for Hector Servadac, which will be proposed only from 1878 to 1883 (this last date is given under reserve because undoubtedly earlier) is otherwise rarer than the one "au monde solaire".

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