Les enfants du capitaine Grant

Illustrated edition featuring 172 vignettes by Riou, engraved by Pannemaker.
Publisher’s royal blue cloth over red boards, known as “à la bannière”, with front cover plaque signed by Souze, bevelled boards of type 7, cold-stamped Lenègre type 3 cover, binding signed Lenègre at foot of spine, HF catalogue at the end of the volume.
Headcaps slightly compressed as often, corners and lower edge a little frayed, occasional foxing, first gathering starting to loosen.

A pleasant copy.
The plot of this work, one of the author’s great classics, follows two children in search of their shipwrecked father, from Scotland to New Zealand via the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, the Strait of Magellan, the Andes, the Argentine pampa, the Cape of Good Hope, Amsterdam Island, and Australia.