ROUSSIN, Albin Reine, Baron de.- Le pilote du Brésil, ou description des côtes de l’Amérique Méridional, situées entre l’île de Santa-Catarina et celle de Maranhaõ; cartes et plans de ces côtes, et instructions pour naviguer dans les mers du Brésil...- Paris: De l’Imprimerie Royale, 1826.- [4], 40 p., [2] f.: [15] mapas; 68 cm.- E. Albin Roussin (1781-1854), French Navy officer, born in Dijon, Rear Admiral at the time the work was published, member of the Council of the Admiralty, Commander of the Order of the Cross (Brazil, 1820) and later Minister of the Navy and Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (France, 1836). Roussin commanded the oceanographic expedition that took place on the coasts of Brazil in 1819 and 1820, consisting of the corvette La Bayadère and the brig Le Favori. Monumental edition consisting of title page (blank verso), an “avertissement”, with a “table de matière de la première partie” (on the verso) and an introductory text with 40 pages, including five tables; followed by two engraved sheets (title and table) and 15 copperplate printed maps, 14 of which are double sheets (67x97 cm). Very clean copy, covered in a remarkable contemporary binding, fully red morocco, with gilt ornamental borders and a large rectangular frame with rocaille tools and gold anchors at the corners, on both covers, with a book stamp crowned with the monogram FO at the centre, probably of Ferdinand-Philippe, Duke of Orléans (1810-1842). Binding with very slight wear, smooth spine gold decorated with romantic tooling, roll on the squares and gilt edges.