Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, 1st US Edition 1874 20 Plates

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First American Edition, First Printing\"A Journey to the Center of the Earth\", Translated from the French of Jules Verne, published by Scribner and Armstrong, New York, 654 Broadway, undated popular edition with 20 engraved plates issued in June 1874. All points of first printing are present: green cloth binding; advertising of Verne\'s \"Meridiana\", \"From the Earth to the Moon\", and \"A Journey to the Center of the Earth\" on page 307; advertising of \"From the Earth to the Moon Direct\", page 308.
Hard boards, original green cloth, front board and spine are stamped in gold (some wear and a few creases, repairs: see scan); yellow endpapers [back paper is creased at the hinges, antique label inside front cover 5\" x 7.3/4\"; 305 pages + 20 plates + publisher\'s advertising; some soiling, a few small creases, very good binding, good to very good condition [see scan]. oenbFirst printing of Scribner, Armstrong\'s \"popular\" edition. This undated 305-page edition with 20 full-page illustrations was preceded by a 384- page Scribner, Armstrong edition with 52 full-page illustrations, printed from the plates of the British 1872 Sampson Low edition. Armstrong edition was published 8 November 1873 at $2.00 per copy. Scribner, Armstrong\'s \"popular\" edition was published in June 1874 at 75¢ to undermine sales of the unauthorized edition published in Boston in 1874 by the Henry L. Shepard & Co. The \"popular\" edition may have been published simultaneously with Scribner, Armstrong\'s more lavish 413-page \"complete\" edition, which sold for $3.00. The \"popular\" edition advertises three Verne books published by Scribner, Armstrong, \"MERIDIANA\", \"FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON\", and \"A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH\" (offered here in both \"popular\" and \"complete\" editions). Verne\'s second novel, a translation of \"VOYAGE AU CENTRE DE LA TERRE\" (1864). Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 1-94 and (2004) II- 1182. Angenot and Khouri, \"An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction,\" SFS, VIII (March 1981), 47. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2228. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 766. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1102-05. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 16. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 199. Reginald 14630. Myers 35. Taves and Michaluk V002.
\"Journey to the Centre of the Earth\", also translated as \"A Journey to the Interior of the Earth\", is a classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves a German professor (Otto Lidenbrock in the original French, Professor Von Hardwigg in the most common English translation) who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the center of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans encounter many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, eventually coming to the surface again in southern Italy. The living organisms they meet reflect geological time; just as the rock layers become older and older the deeper they travel, the animals become more and more ancient the closer the characters approach the center. From a scientific point of view, this story has not aged quite as well as other Verne stories, since most of his ideas about what the interior of the Earth contains have since been proven wrong. However, a redeeming point to the story is Verne\'s own belief, told within the novel from the viewpoint of a character, that the inside of the Earth does indeed differ from that which the characters encounter. One of Verne\'s main ideas with his stories was also to educate the readers, and by placing the different extinct creatures the characters meet in their correct geological era, he is able to show how the world looked a long time ago, stretching from the ice age to the dinosaurs. The book was inspired by Charles Lyell\'s Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man of 1863. By that time geologists had abandoned a literal biblical account of Earth\'s development and it was generally thought that the end of the last glacial period marked the first appearance of humanity, but Lyell drew on new findings to put the origin of human beings much further back in the deep geological past. Lyell\'s book also influenced Louis Figuier\'s 1867 second edition of La Terre avant le deluge which included dramatic illustrations of savage men and women wearing animal skins and wielding stone axes, in place of the Garden of Eden shown in the 1863 edition.
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