Le Sphinx des glaces

Illustrated edition with 68 illustrations by George Roux including 20 large chromotypographic engravings and one map.
Catalogue Y at rear.
Publisher's Hetzel binding signed Engel known as "au globe" type 4, lighthouse spine, second cover type Engel "i" according to Jauzac, all edges gilt.
Headcaps slightly sunken, some foxing.
Le Sphinx des glaces is a fantasy novel, intended as a sequel to Edgar Poe's novel - to which it is dedicated -, Les Aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym, published in 1838.
Copy not recorded by Jauzac.