RAMOND de CARBONNIÈRES (Louis François Elisabeth)... - Lot 510 - Briscadieu

RAMOND de CARBONNIÈRES (Louis François Elisabeth) baron Voyage au Sommet du Mont Perdu 1803. Bagnères de Bigorre, Société Ramond, 1925 "Cahiers Pyrénéiste, III" (cover is dated 1926). In-12 square: 2f. warning, A-Aq (Aux Amis de Ramond) - CXXVIII (La Conquête du Mont-Perdu), 1f. 50pp. 1f. Edition of 310 copies, one of 300 on vergé bouffant ( n°81). ½ marbled brown basane, slightly lightened ribbed spine, red title and author labels, gilt fillets, publisher's cover preserved. Interesting edition, the most complete, which reproduces the 2 texts from the "Journal des Mines" and the "Annales du Museum" and is preceded by an important study by R. J. GRENIER, previously published in the 1915 bulletin de la Société Ramond under the title "Aux amis de Ramond". The previous edition, with an introduction by Paul DUBIÉ "Directeur de la Petite Revue du Midi", appeared in Pau, Garet & Haristoy, 1914. With 125 copies printed, it reproduces only the text that appeared in Journal des Mines no. 83 of 1803. This is the largest volume in the Cahiers Pyrénéistes collection, and its format is "square", unlike that of other publications.