In Search of the Castaways: A Romantic Narrative of the Loss of Captain Grant of the Brig Britannia and of the Adventures of his Children and Friends in his Discovery and Rescue; A Voyage Round the World
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1873. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [4], 5-620, [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Green publisher's cloth over beveled-edge boards with black borders and decorations and gold lettering and decorations on the front board, gold lettering and gold and black decorations on the spine, decorations in blind on the rear board. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with one hundred and seventy engravings (with engravings on the title and half-title pages), engravings are full-page and in-text, done by Edouard Riou. Firsts Magazine July 1996, 40. Gallagher et al. A13. Myerson 34. The first American edition of this title, published in French as Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant (first published in France in 1867). Good. Item #000014055
Visible wear to the binding, repairs to the spine's cloth and to the hinges, a dampstain affecting a small portion of the textblock. An 1873 Christmas gift inscription on the first blank leaf.
Price: $650.00