Jules Verne - Voyage au centre de la terre - Cinq semaines en ballon [Très rare 1er tirage triple faute]] - 1867

Five Weeks in a Balloon - Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jules Verne
Hetzel
1867
19 x 28 cm
257 + 220 Pages
2kg

Very rare very first edition in a double-volume illustrated edition: Journey to the Center of the Earth - Five Weeks in a Balloon.
Print run Bonaventure & characteristic faults as indicated in Jauzac page 167.
For Journey to the Center of the Earth, the capital V in the engraving caption on page 45, a chapter-numbering error on page 201, LIIX instead of XLII, as well as page 181 of Five Weeks in a Balloon noted 81.
In the first and second series there are bound editions with the first fault corrected and still bearing the second fault, but almost never this very first edition.
Known from only a few rare copies!
Red half-basane binding.
Good condition, lower spine cap nicked, repair at the bottom of the spine. wear, foxing.