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Lot 95
Sale 6465 - Printed and Manuscript Americana
Jan 29, 2026
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Live / Philadelphia
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$1,500 -
2,500
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$2,176
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Lot Description
[Literature] Verne, Jules. Around the World in Eighty Days
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1873. First illustrated American edition. 12mo. xvi, 315 pp. Illustrated with frontispiece, 53 plates, and one in-text illustration. Publisher's pictorial green cloth-covered beveled-edged boards, decorated in black and in gilt, slightly cocked, light wear to spine ends and corners; all edges trimmed; brown coated endpapers; ownership signature in pencil at top of title-page; intermittent light foxing to text and plates. Myers, p. 71
Scarce first illustrated American edition of this Verne classic; bound from the English sheets of Gilbert & Rivington and with a new title-page by Osgood.
Property of a Main Line Gentleman, Pennsylvania
This lot is located in Philadelphia.

