From his studies ofcholera in Europe, he co-authored[5]Du choléra-morbus en Russie, en Prusse et en Autriche, pendant les années 1831-1832 (Cholera morbus in Russia, Prussia and Austria in the years 1831 and 1832).[3][6]
Iceland. Engraving from Gaimard 1835
He was the scientific leader onLa Recherche (1835–1836) during its expedition to theArctic Sea,[7][8] making voyages to coastalIceland andGreenland — from 27 April to 13 September 1835 and from 21 May to 26 September 1836. Along with exploratory and scientific goals, the crew of the expedition was asked to search for French explorerJules de Blosseville, who had disappeared aboard theLilloise in Arctic waters a few years earlier.[9][10] Out of these trips came the 9-volumeVoyage en Islande et au Groënland[11] (8 text volumes, one of geographical illustrations), which was said at the time to be the definitive study of the islands.
From 1838 to 1840, again aboardLa Recherche, Gaimard was the leader of a scientific expedition toLapland,Spitzbergen, and theFaroe Islands.[12]
His scientific publications include a major work on the results of each of these four great expeditions.
Voyage autour du monde … pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820 (with Louis Claude Desaulses de Freycinet, Jean René Constant Quoy, et al.), 1824.
Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829 sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville, (with Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville, J Tastu, Jean René Constant Quoy), 1829–1835.
Voyage en Islande et au Groënland exécuté pendant les années 1835 et 1836 sur la corvette La Recherche, (with Eugène Robert; France. Commission scientifique du Nord), 1851.
Voyages en Scandinavie, en Laponie, au Spitzberg et aux Feröe, pendant les années 1838, 1839, 1840 sur la corvette la Recherche, 1842[6][18][19]
