PYRENEISM - ENGLISH WORKS Collection of 3... - Lot 496 - Briscadieu

PYRENEISM - ENGLISH WORKS Collection of 3 works in English: - DIX (Edwin Asa): A Midsummer drive through the Pyrenees. New York and London, Putnam's, 1890. In-8: 332pp; illustrated with frontispiece, double-page hors texte map, 9 full-page illustrations in text, illustrations in text. Publisher's green percaline boards, gilt title, attractive gilt composition on upper board, slight rubbing to headpieces. Extremely rare. Pays basque, Vallée d'Ossau, Cauterets, Gavarnie, Bigorre Venasque. Contains, among other things, the only (?) mention of Whymper's passage through the Pyrenees. - ELLIS (Sarah): Summer & Winter in the Pyrenees. London, Paris, Fisher & Son, sd (1841). In-8: VIII, 2f. 394pp; engraved frontispiece (view of Pau) after the author. Publisher's red cloth boards, gilt title, irons and cold decoration on boards. Very good condition. Partially translated in the Album Pyrénéen. - MILTOUN (Francis) [= Milburg Francisco MANSFIELD]: Castles and châteaux of Old Navarre and the Basque provinces including also Foix, Roussillon and Béarn. With Many Illustrations reproduced from paintings made on the spot By Blanche Mc Manus. Boston, L. C. Page & Company, 1907. In-8: XVII, 456pp; illustrated flyleaves, one double-page genealogical chart in text, 10 maps in text, one fold-out map out of text, 40 plates out of text, 32 in black & white and 8 in color with serpents. Publisher's gray cloth, white title on upper board (decorated with an ivory, blue and gold composition [Château de Foix]), spine decorated with the Arms of Navarre, gilt head. Excellent condition. First edition. A work covering the entire Pyrenees. Lavishly and attractively illustrated. Francis MILTOUN is the pseudonym of Milburg Francisco MANSFIELD, and Blanche MCMANUS that of his wife, Blanche MANSFIELD. An English edition exists (Pitman, 1908)(Bilbao V, 272).