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Cinq Semaines en Ballon (Voyages Extraordinaires) by Jules Verne

First edition - Bouquet de Roses [Type 1 - Petit] with green cloth boards.  Petit in-8. In french, all edges gilt, lemon yellow end pages, tissue guarded frontispiece, 23 additional full page tissue guarded illustrations and numerous more throughout the text by MM. Riou and De Montaut.  Central golden symbol on back cover.

Paris:  Bibliothèque d'éducation et de récréation; J. Hetzel et cie. (n.d. 1865), 270 pages + 2 pages of ads at rear.

A VG copy with very modest loss of gilt at spine ends and part of cover, small bookseller pencils on verso of f.f.e.. the tissue guards throughout are toned.  Professional restoration to gutters. 


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