Copy of the Comte de Saint Saud - Lot 446

Copy of the Comte de Saint Saud MEILLON (Alphonse Auguste) Esquisse toponymique sur la vallée de Cauterets. Cauterets, Cazaux, Thalabot, 1908 (Followed by) Essai d'un Glossaire des Noms Topographiques les plus Usités dans la Vallée de Cauterets. Cauterets, Thalabot, 1911. 2 works in one in-8 volume: 2f., 396pp.,1f. ; one color plate hors texte - 98pp., (1). (paper a little browned as usual). Autograph address from the author to the Count of Saint Saud. ½ period brown basane, smooth ornate spine, red and fawn titles, super libris of the Comte de Saint Saud at foot. Includes subscription form. A good book, much underrated. Previously published as a serial in the "Bulletin Pyrénéen". This vigorous and erudite Pyrenean, hotelier in Pau and Cauterets, began his career in the 1898 directory. From then on, until his death in 1933, he never stopped: history, toponymy, cartography, hunting, excursions, he wrote on a wide range of subjects, mainly about Cauterets.