GAURIER (Ludovic) abbé B - Lot 361

GAURIER (Ludovic) abbé B Les Lacs des Pyrénées Françaises (Full title on 2nd leaflet): The lakes of the French Pyrenees. Commentaires de l'atlas couronné par l'Académie des Sciences (prix Gay, 1929). Preface by M. WILLEMIN, introduction and notes by E.A. MARTEL with the collaboration of MM. Armand SARRAMON and Henri COLSON. Toulouse, Privat ; Paris, Didier, 1934. In-8: 320pp; numerous illustrations in text, printed on glossy paper. Copy with 3 handwritten letters and a postcard addressed to his collaborator, inserted in the text, as well as a thank-you note and participation in the funeral of Abbé Gaurier, and a request for participation in the publication of the Abbé's works. ½ marbled calf, spine ribbed, gilt title and author, geometric cold decoration, publisher's gray cover preserved, gilt head. In a protective cardboard slipcase. This excellent work is supposed to illustrate an atlas of 210 French Pyrenean lakes, printed in "seven copies, in a heliographic edition, a monumental set of bathymetric maps to 1,000th or 2,000th". It would have been desirable to publish it (Labarère 641). Provenance: This copy once belonged to Henri Colson, a collaborator of Abbé Gaurier.