Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 551

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
VERNE, JULES. From the Earth to the Moon. Illustrated with 80 wood-engraved plates. 8vo, publisher's blue cloth pictorially stamped in gilt and black over bevelled edges, cocked, spine tips chipped; few signatures stressed. first fully illustrated american edition. With a gift inscription, "John A. Roebling, from, Mamma. Nov. 21st 1877." Roebling was the engineer who conceived the design of the Brooklyn Bridge, but died before the project got underway. Myers, 26. New York: Scribner, Armstrong, & Co., 1874