Le Superbe Orénoque

Illustrated edition with 73 drawings by George Roux: 1 frontispiece engraved by Froment, 1 title vignette engraved by Pannemaker, 2 large black engravings without captions, 48 black in-text engravings, 1 full-page black map of the Orinoco course, 20 polychrome hors-texte engravings, or printed in sepia or blue-grey.
Publisher's Hetzel binding signed Engel known as "au globe" type 3, spine with lighthouse, second cover type Engel "h" according to Jauzac, all edges gilt.
Original blue endpapers very marginally lightened as usual, some rubbing to spine and gilt on first cover, copy slightly warped. Some signatures slightly protruding.
Le Superbe Orénoque is an adventure novel relating the search for a father along the Orinoco.