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Autour De La Lune
by Verne, Jules
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- About Very Good
- Seller
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Baldwinsville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Bibliothèque d'éducation et de Récréation / J. Hetzel, 1880. Decorative Cloth. About Very Good. 10½x7. Bayard, Emile; Hildibrand; De Neuville, A.. Paris: Bibliothèque d'éducation et de récréation [& J. Hetzel], no date [circa 1875-1890]. 4], 180 pp. Illustrated with numerous engravings by Hildibrand after drawings by Emile Bayard and A. De Neuville. 10½x7, red cloth, elaborate black and gilt decorations, all edges gilt; this is the Hetzel binding known as Cartonnage Type Aux Initiales, which places this copy between 1875 and 1890. Some rubbing, corners show, spine ends worn, small stains, hinges cracked, though not weak; scattered light foxing. Still, overall not far from very good condition; About VG. See scans. Handsome copy of an early Hetzel cartonnage of Verne's 1870 sequel to De la Terre a la Lune (From the Earth to the Moon, 1865). From the Earth to the Moon [first published in the United States as The Baltimore Gun Club and The American Gun Club] was in fact a moderate satire concerning a group of obsessive American Civil War veterans, members of the Baltimore Gun Club, who conceive the idea of creating an enormous cannon in order to shoot a "space-bullet" to the Moon...from a site in Florida. Hmmmm... In this title, Autour de la Lune (Round the Moon) the actual journey to the moon was related. Good looking, elaborate French cover and spine gilt designs, somewhat soiled but clear and salient, with original illustrations by Bayard and de Neuville executed in Hildibrand engravings, those being to my mind a bit superior to some others of the profusely illustrated Verne titles and editions. LG12
Synopsis
Qui resume la premiere partie de cet ouvrage, pour servir de preface a la seconde Pendant le cours de l'annee 186., le monde entier fut singulierement emu par une tentative scientifique sans precedents dans les annales de la science. Les membres du Gun-Club, cercle d'artilleurs fonde a Baltimore apres la guerre d'Amerique, avaient eu l'idee de se mettre en communication avec la Lune - oui, avec la Lune -, en lui envoyant un boulet. Leur president Barbicane, le promoteur de l'entreprise, ayant consulte a ce sujet les astronomes de l'Observatoire de Cambridge, prit toutes les mesures necessaires au succes de cette extraordinaire entreprise, declaree realisable par la majorite des gens competents. Apres avoir provoque une souscription publique qui produisit pres de trente millions de francs, il commenca ses gigantesques travaux. Suivant la note redigee par les membres de l'Observatoire, le canon destine a lancer le projectile devait etre etabli dans un pays situe entre 0 et 28 degres de latitude nord ou sud, afin de viser la Lune au zenith. Le boulet devait etre anime d'une vitesse initiale de douze mille yards a la seconde. Lance le 1er decembre, a onze heures moins treize minutes et vingt secondes du soir, il devait rencontrer la Lune quatre jours apres son depart, le 5 decembre, a minuit precis, a l'instant meme ou elle se trouverait dans son perigee, c'est-a-dire a sa distance la plus rapprochee de la Terre, soit exactement quatre-vingt-six mille quatre cent dix lieues.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000253
- Title
- Autour De La Lune
- Author
- Verne, Jules
- Illustrator
- Bayard, Emile; Hildibrand; De Neuville, A.
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - About Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bibliothèque d'éducation et de Récréation / J. Hetzel
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1880
- Pages
- 180
- Size
- 10½x7
- Keywords
- Science fiction, sci-fi, adventure, engravings, Antiquarian Classics, General, Adventure
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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