GAIMARD (Paul). Voyage en Islande et au Groënland executed during the years 1835 and 1836 on the corvette La Recherche. Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1838-[1852]. -9 volumes of text in-8, 250 x 165, 1 atlas in-8, 244 x 167, and 3 atlases in-folio, 540 x 375. Publisher's printed boards for the text volumes, gray half cloth, smooth spine for the atlas in-8, and gray half cloth with corners, smooth spine for the 3 atlases in-folio (later atlas bindings). Rare first edition. In 1835-1836, Joseph-Paul Gaimard (1793-1858, physician and experienced naturalist, veteran of the 1817 Uranie expedition with Louis de Freycinet) led a scientific mission aboard La Recherche, commanded by Captain Tréhouart. The initial objective: to find La Lilloise, a ship that disappeared in 1833 north of Greenland. Although the search was unsuccessful, the expedition led to groundbreaking studies of Iceland and Greenland, covering medicine, biology, botany, history and literature. Gaimard, surrounded by experts such as Xavier Marmier (man of letters), Victor Lottin (geographer) and Eugène Robert (geologist), returned for four consecutive summers. Their work resulted in a complete work, Voyage en Islande et au Groënland, enriched by three atlases (zoology, mineralogy, landscapes) with detailed and often colorful plates illustrating fauna, icy landscapes and local life. The copy presented here includes the following volumes: - GAIMARD (Paul). Histoire du voyage. 1838. - 1 volume in 2 volumes (Tome premier, 1re partie - Tome premier, 2e partie). Missing the second volume (1850). Decorated with a portrait of Jules de Blosseville (captain of La Lilloise), engraved on chine collé and 1 plate. - LOTTIN (Victor). Physique. 1838. - 1 volume in 2 volumes (1st part and 2nd part). Includes 5 graphic tables out of text. - ROBERT (Eugène). Mineralogy and geology. 1840. - 1 volume in 2 volumes (1st part - 2nd part). Numerous sketches reproduced in the text. - MARMIER (Xavier). History of Iceland. 1840. - 1 volume in 2 volumes (1st part - 2nd part). - MARMIER (Xavier). Icelandic literature. 1843. - 1 volume. Missing Journal du voyage by Eugène Mequet (1852) and Zoologie et médecine by Eugène Robert (1851). Atlas in-8 : - ROBERT (Eugène). Geology and mineralogy. Atlas. Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1838. - 36 beautiful copper-engraved plates in color from drawings by Eugène Robert, complete. In-folio atlas: I. Atlas historique. Tome premier. Paris: Arthus Bertrand, s.d. - title, frontispiece, (2 ff. table), 76 lithographed plates in black on chine collé, after drawings by A Mayer except for 3 portraits after Émile Lassalle (complete). Also includes a large lithographed vignette on the title, depicting the god Thor. II. Atlas historique. Tome deuxième. Paris: Arthus Bertrand, s.d. - title, (2 ff. table), 74 lithographed plates in black on chine collé, after drawings by A Mayer except for 1 portrait after Émile Lassalle (complete). Also includes a large lithographed vignette on the title, depicting the Christian religion in the figure of a woman. III. Atlas zoologique, médical et géographique. Paris: Arthus Bertrand, s.d. title and 50 plates: (Of man: 7 lithographed portraits in black on chine collé - Mammals: 8 plates in color and black (plates 1 to 6 are missing?) - Fish: 21 plates in color (of 22, plate 17 is missing) - Mollusks: 2 plates in color (plates 1 to 14 and 16 are missing) - Medicine: 8 plates in color - Geography: 4 plates (of 6, plates 1 and 2 are missing). In all, the atlases include a frontispiece and 236 plates. Text volume boards soiled, spines worn and missing. Some foxing. Large atlas spines rubbed. Rousseurs.