[Africa] Five weeks in a balloon by Jules Verne. Illustrations by Riou and Montaut. Paris, Bibliothèque d'Éducation et de Récréation, J. Hetzel et Cie, sd (ca 1891). Small in-8°. Publisher's full red percaline boards "with snow star". Engel Binder. Gilt edges. Blue-grey endpapers. No mention of the printer or the completion of printing. No catalogue. Superb copy of this rare ancestor of the Bibliothèque des Succès Scolaires. The inner sections are almost a carbon copy of the first illustrated edition published in 1865.

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