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Hector Servadac : voyages et aventures à travers le monde solaire

Verne, Jules, 1828-1905 · 1878 · Paris : J. Hetzel · 8 pictures

Jules Verne's 1878 scientific romance of a comet carrying a fragment of Earth through the solar system, issued in Paris by Hetzel for a general readership of adults and older children, with wood-engraved plates after Paul Philippoteaux. The plates work in heavy black, setting small figures against basalt cliffs, cavern mouths and lamplit interiors; useful for dense crosshatched rock texture, silhouetted figures at scale, and night-lit dramatic staging.

Internet Archive · The Centre for 19th Century French Studies - University of Toronto · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library