Les enfants du capitaine Grant

Edition illustrated with 172 vignettes by Riou, engraved by Pannemaker.
Publisher's binding known as "à la bannière", royal blue on red background. Beveled boards type 7. Lower board Lenègre type e 1 black. Plate signed Souze, binding signed Lenègre at foot. Black spotting on spine, small tear with lack at foot of one joint, headcaps sunken. First cover darkened, split at foot of pastedown, some foxing at beginning and end of volume, bookseller's label pasted at head of pastedown.
One of the author's great classics, two children in search of their shipwrecked father. The story takes the reader from Scotland to New Zealand via the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, the Strait of Magellan, the Andes mountain range, the Argentine pampas, the Cape of Good Hope, Amsterdam Island, and Australia.