GAIMARD (Paul). Voyage en Islande et au Groënland exécuté pe - Lot 52

GAIMARD (Paul). Voyage en Islande et au Groënland exécuté pendant les années 1835 et 1836 sur la corvette La Recherche commandée par M. Tréhouart Lieutenant de Vaisseau dans le but de découvrir La Lilloise. Paris, A. Bertrand, 1838-1843. Set of 11 volumes, including 3 atlas volumes in-folio, bound in contemporary red half calf; and 8 [of 13] large text volumes in-8, publisher's boards (missing vol.3 Histoire du voyage, vol. Journal du voyage, vol. Zoology and Medicine, vol.2 History of Iceland and vol. 2 Icelandic Literature); freckling and soiling throughout. Some traces of wetness, small tears on qq. pages without gravity; atlases show some foxing, some leaves slightly browned). First edition of the account of this important scientific voyage to Iceland and Greenland, carried out during 1835 and 1836 on the corvette La Recherche in the North Atlantic. French physician and naturalist Joseph Paul Gaimard (1793-1858) took part in several round-the-world voyages, the first as surgeon on Freycinet's Uranie (1817-1820), the next as physician and naturalist on Dumont d'Urville's Astrolabe (1826-1829). Appointed President of the Scientific Commission of Iceland and Greenland in 1829, he led four successive summer campaigns in this region (1835, 1836, 1838 and 1839) in the company of scientists and artists. In addition to the expedition's scientific objectives, Gaimard was tasked with searching for the geographer Jules de Blosseville and his crew, who disappeared aboard La Lilloise off the coast of Greenland in 1833. Text: Histoire du voyage, by M. Paul Gaimard (1838). 2 vols. - Physique, by M. Victor Lottin (1838). 2 vols. - Histoire de l'Islande, by M. Xavier Marmier (1840). 1 vol. (of 2). - Littérature Islandaise, by Xavier Marmier (1843). 1 vol. (of 2). - Mineralogy and Geology, by Eugène Robert (1840). 2 vols. Atlas : Atlas historique : 2 volumes illustrated with 2 lithographed titles with vignette, a title-frontispiece, a portrait of the author and 149 lithographed plates numbered 1-143 including 6 plates bis. - Atlas zoologique, médical et géographique: One volume illustrated with a lithographed title with vignette, 49 plates including 35 superbly colored at the time, and 4 plans by Victor Lottin (plan de Reykiavik dated 1836, plan de Skalholt en 1784 d'après un manuscrit, plan de Skalholt en 1836 et plan des Geysirs dated 1836). A total of 3 titles with vignettes, a frontispiece, a portrait and 202 plates.