MEILLON (Alphonse Auguste) - Lot 448

MEILLON (Alphonse Auguste) Factitious collection containing 3 publications by Alphonse MEILLON: * Complementary geodetic triangulation of the Cauterets region (Hautes-Pyrénées). Tableau des Coordonnées Géographiques et des Altitudes des Points Trigonométriques, Carte Schéma et Panorama de la Région. Part III. Preface by Henri VALLOT. Cauterets, Cazaux, 1920 - ** With Étienne de LARMINAT: Notice sur la carte au 1/20.000ème du massif du Vignemale. Areas south of Cauterets, west and northwest of Gavarnie. Pau, Garet-Haristoy, 1928. - With Étienne de LARMINAT: Notice sur la Carte au 20 000ème avec l'Explication des Noms de Lieux et de Montagnes de la Région de Cauterets. Pau, Marrimpouey, 1933. 3 works in one large in-8 volume: * 28pp, 1f; a map and 2 fold-out photo panoramas out of text, photographic illustrations in text - ** 84 pp, 2f, glossy printing, photographic illustrations in text - *** 80pp, photographic illustrations in text. ½ green basane, red title and author pieces on spine nerves. Reunion of 3 publications: * Third part only of "Excursions Topographiques dans la Vallée de Cauterets". As the titles and format (of the last one) are different, it is not surprising that they have never been reunited. The first two parts are entitled: "Exposé Chronologique des Opérations, Notes Géologiques. Souvenirs Historiques, etc. 1ère partie Préface de F. SCHRADER - Triangulation Géodésique complémentaire de la Région de Cauterets (Hautes-Pyrénées)" and "Panoramas extraits des Tours d'Horizon photographiques des principales stations - 2ème partie", which includes only 20 double-sided photo plates. No other edition of this series exists (Labarère 1030-1032) - ** This Notice contains a study of aerial photography applied to mountain topography, and an important toponymic study by MEILLON concerning the Ossoue, Aspé and Rio Ara valleys. To be completed by a map by the same Meillon and Larminat. *** This note illustrates the "Carte des Environs de Cauterets, Hautes Pyrénées, Vallée de Lutour, de Yérét, de Gaube, du Marcadau et du Camp Basque" published by MEILLON in 1933. With MEILLON comes the end of a Pyrenean epic: the scientific period that began in the 1860s. With the advent of new technologies, notably aviation, the era of the pioneers came to an end.