Celestial spaces From the Earth to the Moon /... Lot 37

Celestial spaces] From the Earth to the Moon / Around the Moon by Jules Verne. Illustrations by de Montaut (From the Earth to the Moon) and Émile Bayard and A. de Neuville (Around the Moon). Paris, Bibliothèque d'Éducation et de Récréation, J. Hetzel et Cie, sd (1872). Large double in-8°. Publisher's full blue percaline "à l'obus" Lenègre type "b" boards. Lenègre Binder. Gilt edges. Dark blue endpapers. Printed by Gauthier-Villars. Original illustrated editions and first double cardboard. From the Earth to the Moon includes the inversion of the engravings on pp. 25 and 32. Autour de la Lune is from the third issue (Jauzac p. 74). No double copy has ever been reported presenting, for this second title, a first or second issue. Covers and corners rubbed. Otherwise a beautiful copy with very bright golds. Beautiful gutter.