Michel Strogoff suivi de Un drame au Mexique

New edition, illustrated with drawings by Ferat, engraved by Brabant and with 6 full-color hors-texte plates, and 2 maps. A portrait of Jules Verne as frontispiece.
Publisher's binding "with an elephant, title in the fan" signed at bottom of the plate Engel, spine with lighthouse, second cover of type "i" according to Jauzac.
Superb first cover, with gleaming gilt. Spine very fresh but lighthouse vignette slightly soiled. Corners very straight and sharp. Second cover very good, but a small white mark of one cm along a black fillet. Some foxing on an otherwise fresh set. Internal hinge slightly opened 5 cm at top, without mechanical problem or fragility.

Very handsome copy, rare in this condition.

Michel Strogoff is a historical adventure novel recounting the journey of its eponymous character, courier of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, from Moscow to Irkutsk, capital of eastern Siberia. His mission is to warn the tsar's brother, who has remained without news from Moscow, of the arrival of the Tartar hordes led by the traitor Ivan Ogareff to invade Siberia.