Meridiana 1874 Jules Verne 1st American Edition w/ 48 illustrations Scribner N.Y - $460 - (Newmarket, ON)

MERIDIANA: The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africaby Jules Vernetranslated from the Frenchpublished by Scribner, Armstrong & Co., New York18741st authorized American edition Worldwide Shipping first American edition, published the same day as Shepard's pirated editionpublished in 1874 by Scribner, Armstrong & Company of New York1st state, with only two titles listed in the advertisement on the title versoremarkably embellished with 48 full-page illustrationstranslated from the original Frenchoriginal French version published in 1872contemporary blindstamped terra-cotta cloth & brightly gilt front cover titlegilt spine titlingtitle-page with frontispiece accompanimentbook dimensions: 19.5 cm X 13.5 cmtotal length 232 pages + 2 rearmost pages of advertisements This South African travel adventure novel was initially published in the original French in 1872, as Aventures de Trois Russes et de Trois Anglais Dans L'Afrique Australe. Sampson Low's English edition, titled Meridiana (with the nationalities reversed in favor of the Englishmen in the subtitle, as here), was issued in November 1872 but was dated 1873. In the same month, some of these copies (printed and bound in England) were imported into the U.S. and equipped with title pages of Scribner's import house, Scribner, Welford and Armstrong (likewise dated 1873)--technically the American issue of the first English edition, and extremely scarce today. This 1874 Meridiana was then the first edition actually produced in America--therefore the first American edition (though Henry Shepard also published an unauthorized pirate edition, titled Adventures in the Land of the Behemoth, with an altered translation and fewer illustrations, on the very same day). (for further details, see photographs and condition description) shipped immediately, tracked international worldwide posting, securely shipped in air cushion packaging, complete as pictured, refunded returns are possible Duties & Taxes…

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