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VERNE (Jules), THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND
First American combined edition
Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island – the modern Robinson Crusoe, translated from the French by W. H. G. Kingston [but actually by his wife Agnes Kinloch Kingston] (Scribner, Armstrong, & Co., New York, 1876)
First American combined edition of three parts of the work (previously published individually by Scribner's in 1875 and 1876), octavo, with numerous wood-engraved illustrations, in the publisher's pictorial gilt and black-blocked red cloth
Sold for $340
Lot 2025
First American combined edition
Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island – the modern Robinson Crusoe, translated from the French by W. H. G. Kingston [but actually by his wife Agnes Kinloch Kingston] (Scribner, Armstrong, & Co., New York, 1876)
First American combined edition of three parts of the work (previously published individually by Scribner's in 1875 and 1876), octavo, with numerous wood-engraved illustrations, in the publisher's pictorial gilt and black-blocked red cloth
Estimate $340 - $650
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