Les Indes noires. Le Chancellor

New edition, illustrated with drawings by J. Ferrat including several polychrome plates hors-texte produced by Belin Frères and appearing here for the first time.
Publisher's "golden globe" binding signed Engel, first cover plate by Blanchelande, spine with lighthouse, second cover of Engel "i" type, with the monogram JH in straight letters.
Les Indes Noires are the Scottish coal mines. An operator discovers a deposit and builds a true underground city, a young girl is discovered there who seems never to have seen daylight. The underground city is a utopia, ideal vision of a hidden world.
Le Chancellor is an adventure novel presented as the Journal du passager J.-R. Kazallon and tells the epic of the shipwrecked passengers of the English ship the Chancellor.
Original blue endpapers marginally and slightly faded as usual, otherwise superb copy.