Sans dessus dessous. Le chemin de France

First collected edition illustrated with 36 drawings by Georges Roux for "Sans dessus dessous", and 41 drawings and two maps for "Le chemin de France".
Publisher's binding aux deux éléphants Lenègre type 3, existing only in red, back board Lenègre type "e", with central medallion on black ground. Fine first binding, with bright gilding, with areas of rubbing in lower border. Headcaps slightly turned, spine very lightly sunned as is often the case, some foxing.
Handsome copy.
"Sans dessus dessous" is an anticipation novel in which certain characters from "De la Terre à la Lune" reappear. Jules Verne features the artillerymen of the Baltimore Gun-Club planning, by means of a cannon shot, to straighten the Earth's axis of rotation to make it perpendicular to the ecliptic plane.
"Le Chemin de France" relates the adventures of Natalis Delpierre, a French soldier visiting his sister in Prussia when the Franco-Prussian conflict breaks out. The story takes place in 1792. While Natalis Delpierre, a soldier in the French army, is in Prussia visiting his sister, war breaks out between France and Prussia; Delpierre and his friends must then find a way to return to France.