Polar Lands Fur Country by Jules Verne. Paris,... Lot 27

[Polar Lands] Fur Country by Jules Verne. Paris, Bibliothèque d'Éducation et de Récréation, J. Hetzel Éditeur, undated (ca 1898). Grand in-8° double. Polychrome publisher's "gilded globe" cardboard of the 3rd type (spine to "closed window"). Engel bookbinder. Gilt edges. Blue guards. Six coloured off-text plates. Imprimerie Gauthier-Villars. Small tear with no missing parts restored on the page of the forgery. Otherwise superb cardboard close to mint condition with still this thin (and very white!) interior from the period of the "glued portraits". Rare title, especially in this cardboard and in this condition!