Campagne Arctique 1907

Bruxelles, Charles Bulens, 1910-1911. Six volumes (of ten) in seven. Folio (35.0 x 27.2 cm) 585 pp.; 41 plates, eight (folded) maps. Uniform printed wrappers and one, similar, reproduced portfolio. = Important contribution to the northern Arctic Seas, especially to the seas around Novaya Zemlaya, privately printed at the expense of the Duc d'Orléans. This set consist of: (1)Journal de Bord et de Physique du Globe (1911). 99 pp., 10 plates, 2 folded maps; (2-3) Meunier, A. Microplankton des Mers de Barents et de Kara (1910). 373 pp., 37 plates, 2 maps. (in 2 volumes); (4) Thoulet, J. Etude lithologique de fonds recueillis dans les Parages de la Nouvelle-Zemble (1910). 28 pp., 2 tabs, 1 map.; (5) Grieg, J. Echinodermes (1910). 40 pp., 1 lithographed plate, 2 folded maps; (6) Richters, F. Faune des Mousses: Tardigrades (1911). 20p., 2 plates; (7) Dautzenberg, Ph. and H. Fischer. Mollusques et Brachiopodes (1910). 25p., 1 map. Ten parts have been published. Lacking are: Fauvel, P. Annélides polychètes (1911), Stappers, L. Crustacés malacostracés (1911) and a part (written by O. Norgaard) on bryozoaires (this part is very often lacking). The Microplankton plates are in a good photostat in new portfolio. All other items are originals.