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This is the first edition Bouquet de Roses edition in contemporary re-binding. Quarter bound in marbled paper over brown leather; ribbed spine lettered and tooled in gilt, blue marbled end pages. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations by De Neuville and Benett, and a 2-page map. No catalog. With code 1757-73 at base of page 220. Jauzac page 86; Bottin page 479. Paris: Biblioth�que d'�ducation et de r�cr�ation; J. Hetzel et cie. (n.d. 1873/4), 220 pages. Good. Binding with wear and some fraying, paper loss at tips. Interior pages are toned with some foxing and pencil writing.

Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly £2 million today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.