Jules Verne / L. Benett - Face au Drapeau / Clovis Dardentor - 1896

Charmingly bound edition in its superb Hetzel publisher's binding, signed by Engel and crowned with a golden globe, these two masterful Jules Verne works are bound together and nicely illustrated with 45 illustrations by L. Benett, including 6 large chromotypography engravings -

The first novel will take you into a thrilling plot. You will follow the escapades of Thomas Roch, a French scientist who has invented a formidable explosive that threatens world peace. Captured by Count d’Artigas, a highwayman, he is taken to the hidden island of Back-Cup, where the count tries to extract his secret. But Roch, driven mad, does not yield. What will be the outcome of this confrontation?

In the second, Jules Verne ventures into a narrative, almost a vaudeville, but all the talent is there, first in the descriptions of 19th-century Algeria. Carried aboard the Argèlès toward Oran and its region, they will visit together; the characters of this story engage in a cross-cutting chase of interest and feelings that will lead to a marriage and an unexpected adoption... -

Jules Verne / L. Benett - Face au Drapeau / Clovis Dardentor - SD (circa 1896) - J. Hetzel et Cie -
221 pp + 244 pp. + 8 pp.

Good condition of binding, the work in its full binding with the golden globe of the first type called “Au bandeau noire,” nice first cover (small green stain on the page at the level of the golden globe), rubbing from use, lower spine a little collapsed, upper spine formerly restored with a small tear on the right side, edges nearly gilded with only a minute highlight, smooth spine adorned, gilded titling and author’s name, black rules framed on the second cover with a black motif in the center -

Good interior condition, foxing scattered, the work enriched with 45 illustrations by L. Benett including 6 large chromography engravings, well complete with chromolithographs and the facsimile of the author's signature on the half-title page of Clovis, full text, without tears or foxing, blue endpapers in good condition (they do not appear to be original) -

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