Author: Orbigny, A. D. 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. 4.e Partie: Paléontologie.
Description: Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1842. Folio (33.5 x 25.5 cm). Half-title to the Voyage, title page, half-title, 182 pp.; 22 finely lithographed plates. Disbound. = This is the complete palaeontology section, including all the plates, of a very important, utterly rare, and extraordinary illustrated monograph on the natural history of South America, being the results of seven years of travels and collecting by one of the foremost French zoologists and palaeontologists, the French explorer, zoologist, botanist and palaeontologist Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (1802-1857). 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, such as this one, are all very rare because the production of this work, which started two years after his return in 1835, took 15 years before completion. Most plates show fossil molluscs. Many species are new and all are recognizable from these original illustrations. The first 13 plates are captioned "Géologie"; plates 14-15 are captioned "Paleontologie", and 16-22, correctly, "Paléontologie". Titles and text much spotted and toned; plates variously toned: some heavily, others much cleaner. A good, complete copy of this fabulous work. Cat. BM(NH) pp. 603, 1473; Nissen ZBI, 3021; Sabin, 57457.

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