*[Espaces celestes] To the Sun?/A journey through planetary space (Hector Servadac 1re partie) by Jules Vern

*[Espaces celestes] To the Sun?/A journey through planetary space (Hector Servadac 1re partie) by Jules Verne. Philadelphia, Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1878. In-12, cartonnage éditeur illustré en pleine percaline havane. Illustrations identiques à la version originale française. Gardes marron foncé. 401 pp. Coiffes restaurées. Premier tirage et premier cartonnage américain (Myers p. 41). Édition originale américaine traduite par Edward Roth sortie un an après les éditions française et anglaise. Il s'agit donc de la première partie, la seconde parait la même année sous le titre Off on a comet! [Celestial Spaces] To the Sun?/A journey through planetary space (Hector Servadac 1re partie) by Jules Verne. Philadelphia, Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1878. Duodecimo, publisher's illustrated full brown buckram binding. The illustrations are identical to those in the French first edition. Dark brown endpapers. 401 pp. Repairs to head and tail of spine. First printing with first American binding style. (Myers p. 41). The American first edition translated by Edward Roth was released one year after the French and English editions. This is therefore the 1st part, the 2nd was published the same year under the title Off on a comet!