Tours of the World Around the World in 80 Days... Lot 5

[Tours of the World] Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne. Illustrations by de Neuville and L. Benett. Paris, Bibliothèque d'Éducation et de Récréation, J. Hetzel et Cie, sd (1874). Large single in-8°. Publisher's full purple cloth boards "aux bouquets de roses" of the 5th type. Charles Magnier Binder. Gilt edges. Blue endpapers. Printed by Gauthier-Villars. First illustrated edition and first single hardback. Beautiful copy of this emblematic title of Jules Verne's Extraordinary Voyages, here in its first printing and in a particularly rare colour.