2 volumes, 8vo (184 x 133 mm). Numerous wood-engraved plates (including frontispieces) by Bennett, 2 engraved folding maps, 8pp. publisher's advertisements at the end of each vol. (A few pale spots, some minor creasing to the map in part II with short separations to folds.) Publisher's dark brown pictorial cloth decorated in black and gilt, beveled boards (spines slightly slanted with stitching starting, a touch of wear to extremities). Provenance: James Frusom (signature, 1881 and blank bookplate in part II). 

FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS of Verne's science fiction adventure tale set in India a decade after the Indian Rebellion of 1857 where a group of British Colonists use steam-powered elephant locomotives and plot revenge.