Printed and Manuscript Americana

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1873. First illustrated American edition. 12mo. xvi, 315 pp. Illustrated with frontispiece, 53 plates, and one in-text illustration. Publisher's pictorial green cloth-covered beveled-edged boards, decorated in black and in gilt, slightly cocked, light wear to spine ends and corners; all edges trimmed; brown coated endpapers; ownership signature in pencil at top of title-page; intermittent light foxing to text and plates. Myers, p. 71

Scarce first illustrated American edition of this Verne classic; bound from the English sheets of Gilbert & Rivington and with a new title-page by Osgood.