Celestial spaces] From the Earth to the Moon / Around the Moon by Jules Verne. Illustrations by de Montaut (From the Earth to the Moon) and Émile Bayard and A. de Neuville (Around the Moon). Paris, Bibliothèque d'Éducation et de Récréation, J. Hetzel et Cie, sd (ca 1885). Large double in-8°. Publisher's full havana percaline boards "au monde solaire". Second plate of Engel type "b". Engel Binder. Gilt edges. Blue endpapers. Printed by Gauthier-Villars. Catalogue "CR" for 1885-1886. Tiny small lack at the bottom left of the title page. Otherwise, a very nice copy with bright golds. The first endpaper was renewed at the time, by Engel's employees themselves!

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