Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la république Argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Perou). Exécuté dans le cours des années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. Tome cinquième. 1.re Partie: Crustacés.

Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1843-[1844]. Text and plates. Large 4to/folio mix (33.7 x 25.8 cm). Half-title (to the Voyage), title and half-title (to the Crustacés); 39 pp.; 18 finely lithographed and delicately hand-coloured plates [numbered 1-12, 14-17, 7bis, 8bis]. Later marbled wrappers. = The complete crustaceans section, a beautifully illustrated work based on material collected by one of the most eminent malacologists of all time, the French explorer, zoologist, botanist and palaeontologist Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (1802-1857), who wrote most of the Voyage himself, but acted as editor of this part, which was written by two of the foremost arthropod experts of the 19th century, Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) and Pierre Hypolite Lucas (1814-1899). The species illustrated were mostly collected by d'Orbigny, in Chile - notably Valparaiso - and Peru (Callao). The illustrations show colourful, large crabs, and a few lobsters. Provenance: Stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) on the title page. Scattered, mostly light spotting; tiny chip in last plate fore edge; text foxed, as often, the plates generally much less affected. In all a very good copy. Cat. BM(NH), pp. 511, 603; Nissen ZBI, 3021; Sabin, 57457.