L'archipel en feu : L'étoile du sud / Jules Verne ; dessins par Benett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verne, Jules, 1828-1905.

Contributor:

Benett, Léon, illustrator.

Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Verne, Jules, 1828-1905. Voyages extraordinaires

His Les Voyages extraordinaires

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

History.

Greece--History--War of Independence, 1821-1829--Fiction.

Greece.

Genre:

Fiction.

Science fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (autograph, November 1973) (donor) (Adams Collection copy)

Physical Description:

198, 242 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Paris : Hachette, 1928.

Notes:

Reprint of editions published by Hetzel, Paris, issued in the series Les Voyages extraordinaires, and as part of Collection Hetzel.

Each book of this double volume bears a different printing date : 1928 for L'Étoile du Sud, 1926 for L'archipel en feu.

Interior art credited on title page, for L'Étoile du Sud as "60 dessins et une carte par Benett" (i.e., Léon Benett), for L'archipel en feu as "Illustrations par L. Benett". Most prints are signed L. Benett, the signature of the many different engravers appearing in the other corner (Bure, Hildibrand, Fromentin, Heulard, etc.).

Local Notes:

Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.

Cited in:

Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 506737

Contains:

Verne, Jules, 1828-1905. Étoile du sud. 1928.

Étoile du sud.

OCLC:

983668438