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Post by farseer on Sept 25, 2024 18:53:16 GMT
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Post by Mac Nabbs on Sept 26, 2024 23:20:42 GMT
Well, as called a specialist of the Verne illustrations it will normally be not fair to comment here ... this is Wilhelm Storitz ...
I'll post some very special images to guess wherefrom they are ...
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Post by Mac Nabbs on Sept 26, 2024 23:43:26 GMT
What title they are belonging to?:
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Post by farseer on Sept 27, 2024 7:50:46 GMT
Well, as called a specialist of the Verne illustrations it will normally be not fair to comment here ... this is Wilhelm Storitz ... I'll post some very special images to guess wherefrom they are ... It's The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz, indeed. As for the new book, we have: 1) a ship being built 2) a boat with some kind of awning 3) walruses Walruses are arctic animals, not found in the southern hemisphere. Of the novels that venture far north, the only one where I remember a ship being built is The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, so I'll go with that, although if there's a boat with an awning there I don't remember it. |
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Post by Mac Nabbs on Sept 28, 2024 8:29:37 GMT
Correct, it's Hatteras.
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Post by Mac Nabbs on Sept 28, 2024 8:33:42 GMT
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Post by farseer on Sept 28, 2024 18:32:28 GMT
I'm lost here. The pictures are not definitive, other than being a sea/ship based book.
I assume you haven't chosen one of the books we have already done, have you? The list is in the first post of this thread.
Assuming it's not one of the books we have done... Which could it be? There are several that could perfectly be it... I have to choose one... I'm going to go with The Archipelago on Fire, just because the second image strikes me as something that could be Greece (although it could be anywhere else, to be honest).
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Post by Mac Nabbs on Sept 29, 2024 9:29:08 GMT
1st no, it is not yet in the list. 2nd, pictures I am trying to show always a little bit out of the "usual" - they have been printed only in the pre-editions in the Magasin d'Éducation et de Récréation or added in later editions ... Only will add pictures from the "common" to help for finding the solution.
1st help: it is from one of the earlier novels ...
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Post by Mac Nabbs on Sept 29, 2024 10:27:15 GMT
2nd help: a first illustration from the regular book edition:
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Post by farseer on Sept 30, 2024 13:31:13 GMT
I'm still lost, and I'm wondering what you mean exactly when you say earliest novels... like, how many novels are included among the "earliest" group?
Anyway, my next guess is going to be Tribulations of a Chinaman in China. Still low confidence, but something about the weird hats in the picture has given me the idea. It's not really a sea novel, but there's some sailing.
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Post by Mac Nabbs on Oct 5, 2024 21:22:16 GMT
Nope. Tribulations is much later ... There are only few novels where illustrations had this shape and small size - like the Hatteras before. You might check for these. And "earliest" means within the first 10 ... Another regular illustration from the illustrated book edition:  |
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Post by phileasfogg on Oct 6, 2024 17:16:37 GMT
I'm going to guess A Floating City? I think the illustrations would fit with that one and it is certainly one of Verne's early novels.
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Post by Mac Nabbs on Oct 6, 2024 20:40:30 GMT
It is one of the early novels, but the pictures are not from it ...
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Post by garmt on Oct 7, 2024 6:18:13 GMT
The clothing style of the characters reminds me of Capt. Grant. Just a hunch, and I didn't want to cheat and look up whether Riou was in fact the illustrator for that novel.
You've given us a real headscratcher here!
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Post by Mac Nabbs on Oct 7, 2024 21:55:48 GMT
Correct : Les enfants du Capitaine Grant !
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