Une ville flottante - Les forceurs de blocus - Aventures de 3 Russes et de 3 Anglais

Illustrated edition with vignettes by Férat and engravings by Pannemaker and Hildibrand.
Hetzel publisher's binding "à l'éventail et à l'éléphant" in full red cloth, first cover polychrome signed Engel, second cover of type "i" as indicated by Jauzac, spine with lighthouse, original blue endpapers, all edges gilt.
Spine sunned, upper corners lightly frayed, upper right corner of first cover creased, blue endpapers marginally discolored as usual, some foxing.
Une ville flottante takes place on an immense ship - the Great Eastern - making the Liverpool-New York crossing and aboard which are several thousand people.
Les Aventures de 3 Russes et de 3 Anglais features researchers tasked with measuring a meridian arc and deals with astronomy and abolitionism.