Glaciers - Lot 360

Glaciers GAURIER (Ludovic) abbé A Glacial studies in the French and Spanish Pyrenees from 1900 to 1909. Preface by Ch. RABOT. [Biarritz, l'auteur] ; Pau, Garet-Haristoy, 1921. In-8: XVI, 364pp; numerous sketch illustrations and photos in text, some full-page. Vintage brown ½-cornered chagrin, gilt title on spine, AS (Armand Sarramon) numeral at foot, publisher's gray cover retained. Author's autograph letter to Dr. Armand Sarramon. This copy includes a letter from Abbé Gaurier dated 1926, written from Lac Pla de Prat. An excellent study, the only one the author will see published. Infinitely rarer than the one on lakes. GAURIER distributed this work himself, probably at his own expense. This true scientist and Pyreneanist wrote in his diary: "To seek in the emotions of climbing the physical joy of exercising one's body and the psychic joy of freely exercising one's will, that's fine. But to also seek to adorn one's intelligence, to seek to understand the landscape, to guess the history of its formation, that's better". Born in 1875, his first contact with the Pyrenees at the age of 17 awakened his vocation as a geographer and geologist. Although he embraced religion by becoming an abbot, he devoted a large part of his life to the mountains and the study of "his" lakes, rivers and glaciers. He died in 1932.