SAINT-SAUD (Aymar d'ARLOT de) baron - [CORRESPONDANCES] - Lot 564

SAINT-SAUD (Aymar d'ARLOT de) baron - [CORRESPONDANCES] Exceptional set containing the Pyrenean correspondence of Baron de SAINT-SAUD covering the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Letters from Paul, ARNÉ, Ricardo ACEBAL del CUETO, Alonzo FERNANDEZ HUERDA, Antonio BANDRES y AZUE, Constance BARNICOAT, Henri and Marcel BARRÈRE, BERGÉ, A. BOTELLA, H. BRÉGEAULT, Henri BRULLE, Lucien BRIET, Manuel BUSTAMANTE, Georges CADIER, L. CAMBOUÉ, E. de CAREFFE, J. CASTET, Paul CAYLA, de COELLO, A. DAUZAT, DURÈGNE, d'ESPOUY, EYDOUX, Emmanuel FALLOT, H. FERRAND, Maurice GOURDON, Joaquim Maria GASTON, Ludovic GAURIER, R. GODEFROY, Édouard HARLÉ, Maurice HEID, Émile HOUTH, General IBANEZ, Paul LABADIE, Paul LABROUCHE, Louis LE BONDIDIER, Georges LEDORMEUR, Ch. LEFRANÇOIS, Ludovic LETRÔNE, MARCAILHOU d'AYMERIC, E. de MARGERIE, J.M. MARTY, L. MAURY, MAUSIER DANDELOT, Felipe MENENDEZ, D. MELLA ALFAGENE, Alphonse MEILLON, ROSSET, Joaquim RUBIO, Louis ROUCH, PRUDENT, RITTER, B. SARRIEU, Gustav SCHULZE, SOULLIER, TERRIER, URIA, d'USSEL, VALLOT, E. A. VICTORIEN, Antonio VICTORY, José VILLANOUA, VILLAVICIOSA, Paul Édouard WALLON, ZABALA, and many other correspondents to be identified. Also from the same source is a binder of correspondence from Lieutenant-Colonel PRUDENT to SAINT-SAUD (approx. 120 letters), a binder of correspondence from LE BONDIDIER to SAINT-SAUD (75 letters) and a binder of letters from BEARALDI to SAINT-SAUD (45 letters and autograph cards), together with documents, typescripts and press brochures. Approx. 700 letters, all protected in plastic sleeves, in 9 binders. Jean Marie Hippolyte Aymar d'ARLOT de SAINT-SAUD (1853-1951) was a French Pyrenean scholar and cartographer, interested in history, geology and genealogy. He was also a talented photographer and watercolorist. In 1894, his 100,000th scale map of the Picos de Europa appeared in the CAF yearbook. He returned in 1906, 1907 and 1908 to complete his observations. In the meantime, he covered the Néouvielle, then the Caillaouas and Pouchergues basins, to rectify errors in the staff map (1905-1906). Finally, he continued his cartographic campaigns at La Pierre Saint-Martin and Pic del Acherito. At the age of seventy, Aymar de SAINT-SAUD put an end to his mountaineering activities, but continued to be intensely active in the various associations of which he was a member and often president and founder. He founded the South-West section of the Club Alpin Français, and was its president from 1923 to 1933. He was intensely involved in writing and editing Bulletins. He was particularly active in the Franco-Spanish Federation of Pyrenean Societies, founded in 1903 by Louis LE BONDIDIER.