Copy of the Marquis de Bouillé - Lot 264

Copy of the Marquis de Bouillé BOUILLÉ de CHARIOL (Jean-Baptiste Amour Marie Roger de, under the pseudonym of JAM) count Pyrénées - Album du Guide Jam. Poitiers, Oudin et Cie, 1896. In-8: 4f., 392pp; numerous full-page illustrations in text from the author's watercolors. Autograph address from the author to M. le Marquis de Bouillé. ½ midnight blue chagrin, gilt title on unstained spine, publisher's illustrated cover retained, gilt head. "Each chapter is devoted to a Pyrenean peak and illustrated with numerous drawings by BOUILLÉ, full of humor and fantasy". It's a pity that the phototypesetting does not render well the superb watercolors of this original and talented artist. BOUILLÉ was born in Nevers in 1819. Although the Pyrenees came late in his life, he wasted no time in making the Ossau valley his favorite playground. His daughters regularly accompanied him, as on this excursion to Balaïtous, which they climbed together on its north-west face. A Pyrenean "by nature" rather than "by rock", he climbs while tracking down the wandering trout, the furtive isard, the delicate Ramondia and the snapshot of a landscape.