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1881 First Illustrated Edition Second Prnt
LES VOYAGES EXTRAORDINAIRES. LA JANGADA
Huit Cents Lieues Sur l'Amazone
An attractive early Hetzel issue of Jules Verne's Amazon adventure La Jangada, and one of the comparatively unusual titles in the Voyages extraordinaires to combine travel, adventure and elements of detective fiction. This is the first illustrated grand-in-8 edition, [1881], first printing, second issue, retaining the diagnostic two-line errata, and presented in the first publisher's cartonnage used for the title: the celebrated red “aux deux éléphants” Type 2 binding by Lenègre.
Illustrated throughout by Léon Benett, the volume is complete with the two full-page maps of the course of the Amazon, at pp. 88 and 320. Verne's novel is followed by Paul Verne's De Rotterdam à Copenhague à bord du yacht à vapeur Saint-Michel, illustrated by Édouard Riou.
Of particular bibliographical interest is the complete 8-page publisher's Catalogue AP at the rear, containing the Nouveautés pour 1881-1882 and announcing works “En préparation pour l'année 1882”. Together with the first Type 2 cartonnage and the two-line errata, this identifies the volume with the early [1881] illustrated issue rather than a later 1882 reprint.
By Jules Verne
Format: Hardcover, Imperial octavo (8vo 8 1⁄4 × 11 1⁄2 in 210 × 292 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Language: French
Published By: Bibliothèque d'Éducation et de Récréation, J. Hetzel et Cie, 18 rue Jacob,, Paris
Condition Report:
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Very Good - A sound and highly decorative early Hetzel volume in the original red publisher's cloth, blocked elaborately in gilt, black and blind in the “aux deux éléphants” Type 2 design. All edges gilt.
The upper board remains particularly attractive, with strong black blocking and substantial surviving gilt. The spine is noticeably faded in comparison with the boards, with the gilt lettering and decoration dulled, together with rubbing and wear to the head and foot. Corners and board edges show expected handling and shelf wear. The rear board has some fading, rubbing and scattered small marks consistent with age and use.
Original grey-blue endpapers present. Visible hinges appear sound. No obvious evidence of rebacking or wholesale rebinding is apparent from inspection.
Internally a notably fresh copy for the period. The text is generally clean and well preserved, with moderate age-toning, occasional light spotting and minor handling marks. The numerous wood-engraved illustrations remain crisp and well printed.
Wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrated title present. Illustrations to La Jangada are by Léon Benett.
Complete with the two full-page maps:
Cours de l'Amazone — 1ère Carte, p. 88
Cours de l'Amazone — 2ème Carte, p. 320
Both maps are clean and well preserved.
The two-line ERRATA correcting the cryptographic text on p. 262 is present, identifying this as the recognised second issue of the first printing.
The principal text is followed from p. 329 by Paul Verne's De Rotterdam à Copenhague à bord du yacht à vapeur « Saint-Michel », illustrated by Édouard Riou.
Complete 8-page Catalogue AP bound at rear, with Nouveautés pour 1881-1882 and the announcement “En préparation pour l'année 1882”.
Printer's imprint: Paris — Imprimerie Gauthier-Villars, 55, Quai des Grands-Augustins.
A handsome and substantially well-preserved example of the first illustrated edition, particularly appealing internally, with its first cartonnage, both maps, errata state and Catalogue AP all present. The principal condition consideration is the fading and wear to the spine.
Edition / Issue
First illustrated grand-in-8 edition. First printing, second issue. First publisher's cartonnage for the title.
The red publisher's binding is the “aux deux éléphants” Type 2, executed by Lenègre. The presence of the Catalogue AP for 1881-1882 and the two-line errata corresponds with the recognised early issue of the first illustrated printing.
Collation: 378 pp. + 8 pp. publisher's Catalogue AP
Wood-engraved frontispiece; illustrated title; numerous illustrations throughout; 2 full-page maps; two-line errata; all edges gilt.
Please see Photos as part of condition report.
References:
Philippe Jauzac, Jules Verne: Hetzel et les cartonnages illustrés, p. 229.
ADER, Livres anciens et modernes, 24 January 2023, lot 151 — first illustrated edition, Type 2 “aux deux éléphants”, Catalogue AP and two-line errata.
Philippe Mellot / Boisgirard-Antonini, Extraordinaire Collection Jules Verne, lot 111 — first cartonnage; second issue of the first printing containing the errata.
Specialist Verne catalogues record the first illustrated edition with Catalogue AP for 1881-1882 and both maps.
Author Bio: Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist, playwright and one of the defining figures of nineteenth-century popular literature. His long collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel produced the celebrated Voyages extraordinaires, an ambitious sequence combining adventure, geography, science, exploration and technological speculation.
Among the best-known titles in the series are Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and Around the World in Eighty Days. Verne's international influence has been immense, although his reputation in the English-speaking world was for many years affected by heavily abridged and altered translations. Modern scholarship has increasingly restored his standing as a sophisticated literary as well as popular writer.
La Jangada is particularly interesting within the sequence for blending Verne's characteristic geographical adventure with the machinery of a crime novel: wrongful accusation, blackmail, investigation and a cryptographic puzzle whose solution becomes central to the story.
Illustrated By: Léon Benett
Édouard Riou — Paul Verne supplement
Illustrator Bio: Léon Benett (1839-1916) was one of the principal illustrators of Jules Verne's later Voyages extraordinaires. A traveller as well as an artist, Benett developed a detailed, naturalistic style particularly suited to Verne's geographical and ethnographic narratives. His illustrations for La Jangada provide the principal visual programme of this volume, including its Amazonian landscapes, characters and episodes of travel.
Édouard Riou (1833-1900) was among the most important early illustrators associated with Verne and Hetzel. His work appeared in such foundational titles as Five Weeks in a Balloon, Journey to the Centre of the Earth and the early illustrated editions of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. In the present volume, Riou illustrates Paul Verne's appended account, De Rotterdam à Copenhague à bord du yacht à vapeur Saint-Michel.
Synopsis: La Jangada: Huit cents lieues sur l'Amazone, first published in 1881, follows Joam Garral, a prosperous landowner living near the Peru-Brazil frontier, as his family prepares to travel down the Amazon to Belém for his daughter's marriage.
Their extraordinary means of transport is the jangada, a vast raft constructed from timber and transformed into a floating settlement capable of carrying the family, servants, animals and cargo hundreds of leagues along the river. The journey gives Verne ample scope for descriptions of the Amazon, its settlements, wildlife and landscapes.
Behind the voyage, however, lies a darker story. Garral has lived for years under the shadow of a serious accusation and concealed identity. His return to Brazil brings his past dangerously close to exposure and places him at the mercy of a blackmailer.
The adventure consequently develops into an investigation involving an old crime, questions of guilt and innocence, and an elaborate cryptogram whose decipherment may determine Garral's fate. This combination of geographical adventure and mystery makes La Jangada one of the more distinctive novels in the Voyages extraordinaires.
The volume concludes with Paul Verne's De Rotterdam à Copenhague à bord du yacht à vapeur « Saint-Michel », an account of travel aboard the Verne family's yacht, illustrated by Édouard Riou.
SKU: BTETM0002314
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1881 First Illustrated Edition Second Prnt
LES VOYAGES EXTRAORDINAIRES. LA JANGADA
Huit Cents Lieues Sur l'Amazone
An attractive early Hetzel issue of Jules Verne's Amazon adventure La Jangada, and one of the comparatively unusual titles in the Voyages extraordinaires to combine travel, adventure and elements of detective fiction. This is the first illustrated grand-in-8 edition, [1881], first printing, second issue, retaining the diagnostic two-line errata, and presented in the first publisher's cartonnage used for the title: the celebrated red “aux deux éléphants” Type 2 binding by Lenègre.
Illustrated throughout by Léon Benett, the volume is complete with the two full-page maps of the course of the Amazon, at pp. 88 and 320. Verne's novel is followed by Paul Verne's De Rotterdam à Copenhague à bord du yacht à vapeur Saint-Michel, illustrated by Édouard Riou.
Of particular bibliographical interest is the complete 8-page publisher's Catalogue AP at the rear, containing the Nouveautés pour 1881-1882 and announcing works “En préparation pour l'année 1882”. Together with the first Type 2 cartonnage and the two-line errata, this identifies the volume with the early [1881] illustrated issue rather than a later 1882 reprint.
By Jules Verne
Format: Hardcover, Imperial octavo (8vo 8 1⁄4 × 11 1⁄2 in 210 × 292 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Language: French
Published By: Bibliothèque d'Éducation et de Récréation, J. Hetzel et Cie, 18 rue Jacob,, Paris
Condition Report:
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Very Good - A sound and highly decorative early Hetzel volume in the original red publisher's cloth, blocked elaborately in gilt, black and blind in the “aux deux éléphants” Type 2 design. All edges gilt.
The upper board remains particularly attractive, with strong black blocking and substantial surviving gilt. The spine is noticeably faded in comparison with the boards, with the gilt lettering and decoration dulled, together with rubbing and wear to the head and foot. Corners and board edges show expected handling and shelf wear. The rear board has some fading, rubbing and scattered small marks consistent with age and use.
Original grey-blue endpapers present. Visible hinges appear sound. No obvious evidence of rebacking or wholesale rebinding is apparent from inspection.
Internally a notably fresh copy for the period. The text is generally clean and well preserved, with moderate age-toning, occasional light spotting and minor handling marks. The numerous wood-engraved illustrations remain crisp and well printed.
Wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrated title present. Illustrations to La Jangada are by Léon Benett.
Complete with the two full-page maps:
Cours de l'Amazone — 1ère Carte, p. 88
Cours de l'Amazone — 2ème Carte, p. 320
Both maps are clean and well preserved.
The two-line ERRATA correcting the cryptographic text on p. 262 is present, identifying this as the recognised second issue of the first printing.
The principal text is followed from p. 329 by Paul Verne's De Rotterdam à Copenhague à bord du yacht à vapeur « Saint-Michel », illustrated by Édouard Riou.
Complete 8-page Catalogue AP bound at rear, with Nouveautés pour 1881-1882 and the announcement “En préparation pour l'année 1882”.
Printer's imprint: Paris — Imprimerie Gauthier-Villars, 55, Quai des Grands-Augustins.
A handsome and substantially well-preserved example of the first illustrated edition, particularly appealing internally, with its first cartonnage, both maps, errata state and Catalogue AP all present. The principal condition consideration is the fading and wear to the spine.
Edition / Issue
First illustrated grand-in-8 edition. First printing, second issue. First publisher's cartonnage for the title.
The red publisher's binding is the “aux deux éléphants” Type 2, executed by Lenègre. The presence of the Catalogue AP for 1881-1882 and the two-line errata corresponds with the recognised early issue of the first illustrated printing.
Collation: 378 pp. + 8 pp. publisher's Catalogue AP
Wood-engraved frontispiece; illustrated title; numerous illustrations throughout; 2 full-page maps; two-line errata; all edges gilt.
Please see Photos as part of condition report.
References:
Philippe Jauzac, Jules Verne: Hetzel et les cartonnages illustrés, p. 229.
ADER, Livres anciens et modernes, 24 January 2023, lot 151 — first illustrated edition, Type 2 “aux deux éléphants”, Catalogue AP and two-line errata.
Philippe Mellot / Boisgirard-Antonini, Extraordinaire Collection Jules Verne, lot 111 — first cartonnage; second issue of the first printing containing the errata.
Specialist Verne catalogues record the first illustrated edition with Catalogue AP for 1881-1882 and both maps.
Author Bio: Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist, playwright and one of the defining figures of nineteenth-century popular literature. His long collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel produced the celebrated Voyages extraordinaires, an ambitious sequence combining adventure, geography, science, exploration and technological speculation.
Among the best-known titles in the series are Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and Around the World in Eighty Days. Verne's international influence has been immense, although his reputation in the English-speaking world was for many years affected by heavily abridged and altered translations. Modern scholarship has increasingly restored his standing as a sophisticated literary as well as popular writer.
La Jangada is particularly interesting within the sequence for blending Verne's characteristic geographical adventure with the machinery of a crime novel: wrongful accusation, blackmail, investigation and a cryptographic puzzle whose solution becomes central to the story.
Illustrated By: Léon Benett
Édouard Riou — Paul Verne supplement
Illustrator Bio: Léon Benett (1839-1916) was one of the principal illustrators of Jules Verne's later Voyages extraordinaires. A traveller as well as an artist, Benett developed a detailed, naturalistic style particularly suited to Verne's geographical and ethnographic narratives. His illustrations for La Jangada provide the principal visual programme of this volume, including its Amazonian landscapes, characters and episodes of travel.
Édouard Riou (1833-1900) was among the most important early illustrators associated with Verne and Hetzel. His work appeared in such foundational titles as Five Weeks in a Balloon, Journey to the Centre of the Earth and the early illustrated editions of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. In the present volume, Riou illustrates Paul Verne's appended account, De Rotterdam à Copenhague à bord du yacht à vapeur Saint-Michel.
Synopsis: La Jangada: Huit cents lieues sur l'Amazone, first published in 1881, follows Joam Garral, a prosperous landowner living near the Peru-Brazil frontier, as his family prepares to travel down the Amazon to Belém for his daughter's marriage.
Their extraordinary means of transport is the jangada, a vast raft constructed from timber and transformed into a floating settlement capable of carrying the family, servants, animals and cargo hundreds of leagues along the river. The journey gives Verne ample scope for descriptions of the Amazon, its settlements, wildlife and landscapes.
Behind the voyage, however, lies a darker story. Garral has lived for years under the shadow of a serious accusation and concealed identity. His return to Brazil brings his past dangerously close to exposure and places him at the mercy of a blackmailer.
The adventure consequently develops into an investigation involving an old crime, questions of guilt and innocence, and an elaborate cryptogram whose decipherment may determine Garral's fate. This combination of geographical adventure and mystery makes La Jangada one of the more distinctive novels in the Voyages extraordinaires.
The volume concludes with Paul Verne's De Rotterdam à Copenhague à bord du yacht à vapeur « Saint-Michel », an account of travel aboard the Verne family's yacht, illustrated by Édouard Riou.
SKU: BTETM0002314
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
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