Mistress Branican

Illustrated octavo edition decorated with illustrations by L. Benett and two large maps.
Publisher's Hetzel binding "à l'éventail et à l'éléphant" in full red cloth signed A. Lenègre, polychrome first cover signed Engel presenting the title in a black and gilt fan, several black and gilt frames, a gilt elephant head in the upper left, three small illustrations as well as various gilt navigation and exploration instruments, all framed within green foliage, second cover of type "i" as indicated by Jauzac, lighthouse spine, original blue endpapers, all edges gilt.
Mistress Branican begins in the United States to take the reader to deepest Australia, that of the desert bushlands.
The only Jules Verne novel where the heroine is a woman.
Original blue endpapers marginally shaded as usual, a small tear to the second cover.