Cartography - Lot 445

Cartography MEILLON (Alphonse Auguste) - LARMINAT (Étienne de) commandant Notice sur la Carte au 20 000ème avec l'explication des Noms de Lieux et de Montagnes de la région de Cauterets. Pau, Marrimpouey, 1933. Large in-8: 80pp; photographic illustrations in text. Paperback, publisher's cream cover. A fine uncut copy, virtually as new. This leaflet illustrates the "Carte des Environs de Cauterets, Hautes Pyrénées, Vallée de Lutour, de Yérét, de Gaube, du Marcadau et du Camp Basque" published by MEILLON in 1933. With MEILLON comes the end of a Pyrenean epic: the scientific period that began in the 1860s. With the advent of new technologies, notably aviation, the era of the pioneers came to an end (Massie cartog. 15 and 98 ff.).