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Publication: Five Weeks in a Balloon: A Voyage of Exploration and Discovery in Central Africa

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  • Publication: Five Weeks in a Balloon: A Voyage of Exploration and Discovery in Central AfricaPublication Record # 672879
  • Author: Jules Verne
  • Date: 1870-00-00
  • Publisher: Chapman & Hall
  • Pages: x+374
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Webpages: archive.org-1, archive.org-2
  • Notes: The following is from a digitized copy at the Bodleian Library www.ox.ac.uk/.
    • Title, author, date, publisher, pages, format, cover art.
    • Title page also has "From the French of Jules Verne".
    • An external source www.julesverne.ca gives the date as at June 1, 1870.
    • Publisher given on title page as "Chapman and Hall".
    • Title page credits "with sixty-four illustrations by Riou" - Édouard Riou. Sixty-three of the illustrations come from the 1865 and 1867 French editions, but one (on the title page) seems new.
    • The Contents start on (unnumbered) page v, with the remainder on numbered pages vi through x. The novel starts on page 1.
    • Copy uploaded on Archive.org in May of 2008 also includes the 1870 Charlton Tucker edition of Le Sage's The Lame Devil.
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