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

Exciting edition beautifully bound in its superb publisher Hetzel’s leatherette binding signed by Engel, known as the Globe d’Or, of these two masterful works by Jules Verne, 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, mad, does not yield. What will be the outcome of this confrontation? -

In the second, Jules Verne ventures into a tale, almost a vaudeville, yet all the talent is there, first in the descriptions of 19th-century Algeria. Embarked aboard the Argèlès bound for Oran and its region which they will visit together, the characters of this story engage in a cross-cutting chase for interests and feelings that will lead to a marriage and an unexpected adoption… -

Jules Verne / L. Benett - Face au Drapeau / Clovis Dardentor - SD (Circa 1896 = Catalogue) - J. Hetzel et Cie -
221, (1), 244 pp.

Good condition of the binding, the book in its full leatherette binding with the Globe d’Or of the first type called “Au bandeau noire,” nice first cover, wear from use, minor defects on the cover, spine wear, edges gilded, smooth decorated spine, gilded title and author name, black borders around the second cover motif in black –

Good interior condition, some stains, book enriched with 45 illustrations by L. Benett including 6 large chromotypography engravings, well complete with chromolithographs and the facsimile, full and clean text, no tears, blue endpapers in good condition (they do not seem to be original), a pleasant copy –

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