VERNE (Jules). Travel Grants. Paris: Collection Hetzel, [1904]. — In-8, 274 x 178. Polychrome percaline cloth binding with a “gilded globe,” spine featuring a lighthouse, gilt edges (Engel). First illustrated large 8vo edition of this little-known novel by Jules Verne. The Antilian School is a renowned London school that admits only students native to the West Indies. Thanks to a generous donation from Mistress Seymour, a wealthy landowner from Barbados, nine scholarship students are offered a study trip through the Caribbean, accompanied by their mentor Horatio Patterson, the school’s bursar. The novel recounts their adventures. The illustrations include a full-page map, several dozen photographs within the text and as full-page plates, and 59 figures by Benett, including 12 chromotypographs as inserts. A hardcover copy with a gilded globe (Type 4), featuring a back cover of the “Engel i” type. A few stains on the cardboard binding; the inner hinge of the front cover is fragile. Foxing spots.