first edition Hardcover
1852 · Philadelphia
by VERNE, Jules; Henry David Thoreau
Philadelphia: John Sartain & Co, 1852. Hardcover. Fair. First edition. Eight consecutive monthly issues bound together in one volume: Vol. 10 (January – June, 1852; Vol. 11 (July – August, 1852). Octavo. iv, 516; 208pp. Illustrated with engraved plates, including several mezzotint plates. Bound in contemporary half red morocco and marbled paper over boards. The binding is worn, scuffed and torn at the spine, one mezzotint plate neatly detached, else good overall with the usual intermittent toning and foxing, and moderate dampstaining at the front and fore-edge margin. The May issue includes “A Voyage in a Balloon” by Jules Verne, translated from (truncated)