Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée
Subtitle: pendant les années 1837-1838-1839-1840
By: sous le commandement de M. Dumont d'Urville, capitaine de vaisseau, publié par ordre du gouvernement et sous la direction supérieure de M. Jacquinot, capitaine de vaisseau, commandant de la Zélée ; Zoologie
Contributors: Jacquinot, Charles Hector, 1796-1879; Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner; Library of Congress; U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Library and Archives; Astrolabe expedition, 1837-1840
Publisher: Gide et J. Baudry ...
Published: 1842
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: Zoology; Scientific expeditions; Description and travel; Pictorial works; Zélée (Frigate)
Other titles: Zoologie
Notes: "Paris. --Imprimerie de J. Claye et Ce. ..." --p. [6].

Some leaves of plates have embossed stamp: Gide, Editeur, Paris.

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SCNHRB copy 1 (no. 39088006781488) is bound in 1 v.

Copy 1 has pencilled note on t.p.: Note this is not original edition of title page, but 1853 reissue. [Signed with illegible initials].

Plates 23-24 (mollusques) of c. 1 have pencilled note: According to stamps in French National Library, published between Dec. 1851-Dec. 1852. P. Bouchet (1979, in list).

Copy 1 has stamp on t.p.: Library of Congress, city of Washington.

Copy 1 has bookplate: Ex libris William Healey Dall, Division of Mollusks sectional library [also stamped on front free endpaper].

Copy 1 bound in burgundy buckram.

SCNHRB copy 2 has been rebound in 3 v. (no. 39088008017451, 39088007998008, and 39088007998073), and every page and plate has been encapsulated.

Copy 2 has stamps on t.p.: U.S. C. & G. Library and Archives, no. 2926, shelf 858, case B.R. 508; U.S. Coast Survey Library.

Copy 2 bound in modern, linen-covered boards.
Table of contents: title: (for SCNHRB c. 2 only): v. 1. Mammifères, oiseaux; title: v. 2. oiseaux (cont.), sauriens, ophidiens, batraciens, poissons, insectes coleoptères; title: v. 3. insectes coleoptères (cont.), lepidoptères, insectes orthoptères, crustacés, mollusques, zoophytes.