VERNE (Jules). - Lot 118

VERNE (Jules). La Jangada. Eight hundred leagues on the Amazon. From Rotterdam to Copenhagen aboard the yacht Saint-Michel by Paul Verne. Paris: Bibliothèque d'éducation et de récréation, J. Hetzel et Cie, [1881]. - In-8 double, 270x181: (2 ff.), 378 pp. (4 ff. de cat.). Caramel boards "with two elephants", gilt edges (Lenègre). First illustrated edition, with compositions by Léon Benett for La Jangada, and by George Rioux for the text by Paul Verne. Copy in "two elephant" cartonnage, the first made for this title. It is here in an unusual caramel color. The second board is Lenègre "d" type. A second edition copy, without the errata on page 377, which is much rarer than the first. The catalog at the end is the AP catalog of 1881-1882. A fine copy. Stains to endpapers.