Five weeks in a balloon by Jules Verne. Illustrations... Lot 10

Five weeks in a balloon by Jules Verne. Illustrations by Riou and Montaut. Paris, Bibliothèque d'Éducation et de Récréation, J. Hetzel Éditeur, sd (ca 1900). Large single in-8°. Publisher's polychrome boards "with steamer and red pastille". Ch. Magnier et Fils bookbinders. Imprimerie Gauthier-Villars. Gilt edges. Blue-gray endpapers. Four hors-texte plates in color. The book has fallen, opening from the bottom of the second spine to the box at the foot... Restorable damage, all the more necessary as the copy is otherwise superb.