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Les Indes noires

1877120 x 185 mm

ORIGINAL EDITION without

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FIRST EDITION published in bookshops on 26 April 1877.
The text first appeared in serial form in The weather between 28 March 1877 and 22 April 1877.

To write his descriptions of the Europe of the Industrial Revolution, Verne drew on the notes he had written during his trip to England and Scotland with Aristide Hignard.

Sober contemporary binding.

Pages 1, 290 and 291 are not numbered. The list of works mentions "Black Indies, 4th edition"Gondolo della Riva n°26 p. 54

Paris,J. Hetzel,Undated [1877].In-18,120 x 185 mm,[2] ff. - 289 pp. - [1] f. .

Contemporary half red basane, smooth spine decorated with gold fillets and roulette, gilt title, spotted edges. Rubbing, particularly on the corners and edges. Some foxing in the margins of the first quires.

Bio

Jules Verne

(Nantes: 8 February 1828 - Amiens: 24 March 1905)

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