Paris, Fortin, Masson, 1836-1844. Thick, 4to-sized folio (25.3 x 17.4 cm). 87 plates, numbered as follows: 1-11, 11bis, 12-34, 34bis, 35-54, 54bis, 55, 55bis, 56 -62, 62bis, 63-70, 70bis, 71, 71bis, 72-80; Plate 4 much larger, double-folded; each with explanatory text leaves and tissue-guards. Contemporary red half morocco over patterned boards. Spine rich gilt with ornamental vignettes and gilt title. Iridescent endpapers. All edges gilt.

The very uncommon Crustacea atlas of the so-called Disciples Édition of George Cuvier's Regne animal. The French naturalist Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (1769-1832) was, with Lamarck, the leading zoologist of the late 18th and early 19th century. He is also widely regarded as "founding father of palaeontology". This atlas formed part of a much expanded and superiorly illustrated work, written by his students - or disciples - after his death; in this case by the French zoologist of English descent, Henri Milne Edwards (1800-1885). The plates are by Milne-Edwards himself and/or the natural history illustrator Antoine Jean Baptist Vaillant (1817-1852). The exquisite colour lithography is by the famous Rémond. Publication took more than nine years (see Cowan). Stamp on first blank recto; some spotting to the tissue guards, and to several plates, as usual; otherwise a very good, complete copy. Cowan, On the Disciples' Edition of Cuvier'sRègne Animal. J. Soc. Bibl. Nat. Hist. 8[1]; Nissen ZBI, 1014 [under Cuvier]; Casey Wood, p. 307, mentions the vertebrate parts only.