VAILLANT (Auguste-Nicolas). Voyage around the world during the years 1836 and 1837 on the corvette La Bonite... Historical album. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, s.d. [circa 1845]. In-folio, black half-chagrin (modern binding). First edition of this magnificent atlas of 100 lithographed plates on chine appliqué, after drawings by Lauvergne, Fisquet, Touchard and other artists. These views show Toulon, Cadiz, Rio de Janeiro (6), Montevideo (5), Cape Horn (2), Chile (6), Bolivia (2), Peru (14), Colombia (4), the Sandwich Islands (5), Hawaii, the Philippines (6), China (14), Cochinchina (4), Singapore and Malacca (8), Malaysia (7), India (12), Saint-Denis and Saint-Helena. This historical album accompanies the Relation of the voyage given by Amédée de La Salle. The complete report of La Bonite's circumnavigation voyage, published between 1840 and 1866, comprises fifteen volumes of text and three atlases (the other two deal with botany and zoology). Washed copy in modern binding with original spine reapplied; title leaf pastedown without margin and table leaf repaired. Hill, n°1752 - Sabin, n°98298.