Espaces célestes Sans dessus dessous and France... Lot 54

[Espaces célestes] Sans dessus dessous and [France] Le Chemin de France by Jules Verne. Illustrations by Georges Roux. Paris, Bibliothèque d'Éducation et de Récréation, J. Hetzel, sd (ca 1903) Grand in-8° double, polychrome cartonnage de l'éditeur " au globe doré " du 4e type. Gilt edges. Blue guards. Engel bookbinder. Thirteen coloured off-text plates (seven for Sans dessus dessous and six for Le Chemin de France). Slightly faded spine. Otherwise an extraordinary copy close to mint condition! More than forty years of experience in the field of Vernian bibliophily allow us to be categorical: the rarest title, especially in the "portrait" and "globe gilt" cardboard boxes, is undoubtedly Sans dessus dessous / Le Chemin de France, without any competitor to overshadow it!