Les enfants du capitaine Grant

Edition illustrated with 172 vignettes by Riou, engraved by Pannemaker. Catalogue AI at rear for 1880.
Publisher's binding known as "à la bannière", royal blue on red ground. Beveled boards of type 7. Lower board of type Lenègre 3 in blind. Plate signed Souze, binding signed Lenègre at foot.
Fine upper plate. Traces of rubbing in the blue cartouche. Spine sunned but with gilding well preserved. Corners rubbed. Rubbing to headcaps. Second board good. Edges perfect. Some scattered foxing, notably on the first leaves and the last, but overall rather clean on good white paper. Handsome copy.
One of the author's great classics, 2 children searching for their shipwrecked father, which takes the reader from Scotland to New Zealand via the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, the Strait of Magellan, the Andes cordillera, the Argentine pampas, the Cape of Good Hope, Amsterdam Island, and Australia.