Jules Verne. Dora Leigh, translator. L[éon] Benett and P[aul] Phillippoteaux, illustrators. The Exploration of the World: Famous Travels and Travellers. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1879. First American edition. Quarto. 432pp + 4pp ads. Profusely illustrated with drawings by Benett and Phillippoteaux, plus maps, facsimiles. Publisher’s green pictorial cloth, stamped in black and.....
Jules Verne (N. C. Wyeth, illustrator). The Mysterious Island. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988. Reprint edition. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. Octavo. 493pp. Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. Publisher's blue cloth, spine and boards lettered in gilt, illustrated endleaves.....
Jules Verne. Dora Leigh, translator. The Exploration of the World: Famous Travels and Travelers. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1879. First American edition. Octavo. 432pp + 4pp ads, with Hector Servadac listed first. With illustrations by L. Benett and P. Philippoteaux, and facsimiles of ancient drawings. Publisher’s brown pictorial cloth, stamped in.....
Jules Verne. Édouard Riou, illustrator. Ellen Frewer, translator. The Wreck of the Chancellor. Diary of J. R. Kazallon, Passenger [together with:] Martin Paz. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, [1876]. Early American edition. Small octavo. 358pp + 6pp ads. Illustrated with full-page plates by Édouard Riou. Publisher’s brown pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt and black to.....