Cartography - Lot 444

Cartography MEILLON (Alphonse Auguste) - LARMINAT (Etienne de) commandant - GAURIER (Ludovic) Massif du Vignemale. The Hautes Pyrénées south of Cauterets and west of Gavarnie. Triangulation, Topographic Operations, Toponymy by A. MEILLON. Calculations, restitution and drawing by E. de LARMINAT, Bathymetric curves of French lakes by L. GAURIER. 1929. Sheet measuring 660 X 770 mm, contour lines, legends, engraved and printed in color by the Institut Cartographique de Paris. Tiled, cloth-backed, folded to in-12 square format in printed pocket. First edition of this excellent map, revised in 1935. The 5th edition dates from 1965. This map complements the "Notice sur la Carte au 20.000ème du Vignemale. Région Sud de Cauterets, Ouest et Nord-Ouest de Gavarnie" published in Pau, Garet-Haristoy, 1928. There is also a map and leaflet for Cauterets (Musée Pyrénéen: trois siècles de cartographie dans les Pyrénées 117-118). Also included: ESPOUY (Raymond d'): Art ou géométrie? (A propos de la feuille Vignemale de la carte Meillon). Toulouse, éditions de la Section des Pyrénées Centrales du Club Alpin Français, 1930. Booklet in-8, 11pp; one plate on glossy paper. Interspersed with a note on the work and a letter from the author to Abbé Gaurier. Autograph letter to Abbé Gaurier. Publisher's buff cover.