Illustrated edition with drawings by J. Férat, engraved by Barbant.
Rare publisher's navy blue cloth binding known as "aux deux éléphants", signed by Lenègre, type 1, spine with three gilt compartments, lower cover without medallion, gilt mention "Engel rel." at foot of spine, brown endpapers and pastedowns, all edges gilt.
Rubbing to spine ends, small loss of cloth at foot of spine, white discoloration spots on pastedowns, slightly bumped corners, scattered light foxing, scuffing along the fore-edge margin of lower cover.
One of the author's most celebrated adventure novels, in which Michel Strogoff, courier of the Tsar of Russia, must travel from Moscow to Irkutsk (capital of Eastern Siberia) to warn the Tsar's brother of the approaching Tartar hordes intent on invading Siberia.