Cinq semaines en ballon et Voyage au centre de la terre

New edition illustrated by Riou and Montaut. Catalogue CH in fine for 1885.
Board with “Two elephants” of type 3, published between 1884 and 1889. Lenègre type “e” second board, with a blind tooling central badge on a black background.
Beautiful first plate, corners very lightly folded including a little rubbing. Very good spine with clear golds, the spine-ends a little sagging with a small tear the length of the joint. Second board in beautiful condition with 2 marks. A trace of a very pale water stain in the margin of the first 10 leaves fading away. Overall, rather clean but some leaves with scattered browning.
A beautiful copy.
Collector's edition of these two adventure novels emblematic of the work of Jules Verne.