Author: Orbigny, A. D.
Title: 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. Atlas. Polypiers.
Description: Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1847. Folio (33.8 x 25.1 cm). 13 lithographed plates, numbered: 1-13 (all published). In later portfolio. = These are all the plates of the Bryozoa (plates 1-10) and some Hydrozoa (plates 11-13) in Alcide d'Orbigny's magnum opus. A complete set of the scientific results of d'Orbigny's seven years of travel and exploration in South America is a true rarity, and even the individual parts are all very rare because the production of this work, which started two years after his return in 1835, took 15 years before completion. Many engravings are very detailed, and often highly enlarged. Most species are new and all are well-recognizable from these original illustrations. The "polypiers" include such genera as Thoa, Sertularia, Dynamena, Plumularia, and Tubularia. All plates were finely engraved by Delarue, after drawings by d'Orbigny himself. A very good, clean set of plates of this fabulous work. Nissen ZBI, 3021.

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