Orbigny, A. [C. V. M. D.] and [F. L.] P. Gervais
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 quatrième.2.e Partie: Mammifères.
Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1847. Text and atlas. Large 4to/folio mix (33.2 x 24.6 cm). General title; 32 pp. (including title to the mammals); 22 finely lithographed and delicately hand-coloured plates [numbered 1-6, 8-18, 20-23; 2bis; 7 and 19 not used]. Recent blue boards with general title printed on the front board.
The complete mammalian section of a beautifully illustrated work 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). Entirely based on his own collections and researches. The work was co-authored by François Louis Paul Gervais (1816-1879), the leading French mammalogist of the mid-19th century. The first three plates show human crania. Monkeys, bats, rodents, and marine mammals feature prominently. Included is a beautiful illustration of Geoffroy's cat. Some light, scattered spotting. This work is prone to foxing, but this is by far the cleanest copy we have ever seen. Nissen ZBI, 3021; Sabin, 57457.
