20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne (1880s)

S$175.00

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne (1880s)

S$175.00

Title: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Author: Jules Verne

Publisher: Belford, Clark & Co, exact date unknown. No later than 1886, as indicated by previous owner’s inscription on endpaper.

Condition: Hardcover, decorative cloth. In astonishingly good condition for its age. Pages evenly toned, small bumps to spine ends, otherwise near perfect – rare for such an early edition.

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About the book (from Wikipedia):

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. It tells the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus as seen from the perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax.

The title refers to the distance traveled while under the sea and not to a depth, as 20,000 leagues is 2.7 times the circumference of Earth.