A Floating City, and The Blockade Runners.

First English edition of this classic speculative travel narrative by the author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Octavo, original publisher's terracotta pebbled cloth over beveled boards elaborately stamped in black and gilt, all edges gilt, pale orange coated endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece, title page vignette, illustrated with 42 full-page wood engravings by Hildibrand, Pannemaker, after illustrations by Paul Ferat. 40 pp. publisher's advertisements [dated August 1874] at rear. Gallagher A24; Myers 22. In near fine condition. Period ownership inscription. An exceptional example.