1832 Rare Book in Bayntun Binding - Surprising Adventures of Robinson CrusoeAuthor: Daniel Defoe. With introductory memoir and notes by Rev. H. Stebbing, A. M. Title: The Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. With Twenty Engravings, and a Life of the Author. Publisher: London, J. F. Dove, 1832. Language: Text in English. Size: 6" x 4". Pages: 502 pages. Binding: Attractive and near fine signed Riviere Bayntun binding beautifully bound in full speckled calf, with raised bands and gilt lettered black morocco label to spine.

Notre-Dame de Paris

Estimate: (Scarce with no other copies available for sale worldwide)

Author: Edward Arnold

Illustrations: This complete edition is richly illustrated by Cicely Mary Barker

The vibrant red binding with its striking design is a testament to the enduring popularity of Verne's storytelling

first free blank endpaper page creased - as shown)

Bohn edition of Don Quixote de la Mancha

The upper cover features a gilt fairy figure with wand

he is best known for The Canterbury Tales

no date (circa 1849)

illustrated by Louise Gaston

the implication being from his excesses