LAPLACE (Cyrille Pierre Theodore). - Lot 78

LAPLACE (Cyrille Pierre Theodore). Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine de La Corvette de Sa Majesté La Favorite exécuté pendant les années 1830, 1831, 1832. Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1835. - In-folio, 477 x 320 : (2 ff.), 72 plates. Red half-maroquin, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). Sabin, n°38985. Historical album alone, without the text volumes or the Hydrographic Atlas, of the account of the voyage around the world undertaken by explorer Cyrille Pierre Théodore Laplace (1793-1875) from 1830 to 1834. It comprises 72 bistre plates engraved with aquatint, after drawings by Barthélémy Lauvergne (1805-1871), painter, draughtsman and lithographer to the French navy, Pâris, and Louis Auguste de Sainson (1801-1887), under whose direction the edition was made. The title is illustrated with a woodcut vignette by Porret after Sainson. Enriched copy with a portrait on chine appliqué before the letter, lithographed by Émile Lassalle, dated 1840, whose subject has not been identified. Copy partly unbound. Binding very damaged, with numerous rubs from use, missing part of the last box, hinges cracked. Endpapers loose. Numerous brown spots. Angular staining to first 15 leaves.