1874 Jules Verne Behemoth Meridiana Africa Adventure Voyages Illustrated Sci-Fi



“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.”

― Jules Verne



In 1873, Scribners published the first authorized edition of Jules Vernes famous Meridiana or Adventures of Three Russians and Three Englishmen in South Africa. This book, which is part of Vernes Extraordinary Voyages, is

“a hunting story, which aroused many a youthful sportsmans throbbing eagerness for the chase and gave him this first knowledge and earliest enthusiasm for that heart-stirring excitement.” (Myers)

This adventures story follows the story of English and Russian scientists who head to South Africa for research. While on their mission, the Crimean War begins, and the researchers find themselves to be enemies of locals.



This 1874 printing was unauthorized and pirated by Shepard and printed under a different title – Adventures in the Land of the Behemoth. Shepard used sheets from the British edition published by Sampson low in 1872; and unfortunately, the texts of this edition and the first authorized Scribner translation are drastically different.



Item number: #40037

Price: $550



VERNE, Jules



Adventures in the Land of the Behemoth



Boston: Henry L. Shepard & Co., 1874. 1st edition, 14th thousand



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

iv, [2], 7-190

20 full-page illustrations

References: Myers 39; Taves and Michaluk V 009

Provenance: Handwritten

D. W. Hovey, 1915

N. E. Woods, 1876

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure

Decorative red cloth

Size: ~7.75in X 5.75in (19.5cm x 14cm)



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