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). Scattered, mostly light spotting. 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. 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.