Highly desirable ALS in French, one page, 3.75 x 6, December 19, 1898. Letter mentioning his Voyages Extraordinaires, naming the forthcoming Le Testament d'un excentrique [The Will of an Eccentric]. In full (translated): "Here are the few lines that you desire and that I send you in grateful response for your very kind letter. I will profit from this occasion to recommend to you my new novel in the series of the Extraordinary Voyages that will be published 1899 with the title The Will of an Eccentric. And that will happen in the United States. I do hope you may take some pleasure in reading it. Please be assured of my very respect and consideration." In fine condition, with scattered light foxing and toning.
Originally published between 1863 and 1905, the Voyages Extraordinaires is a sequence of 54 of Verne's novels; according to Verne's editor Pierre-Jules Hetzel, the goal of the Voyages was 'to outline all the geographical, geological, physical, and astronomical knowledge amassed by modern science and to recount, in an entertaining and picturesque format…the history of the universe.' Among the best known works in the series are Journey to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
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