Autograph letter - Lot 140

Autograph letter COLAS (Louis) La Tombe Basque - Recueil d'Inscriptions Funéraires et Domestiques du Pays Basque Français. Various Studies, Notes and References. Preface by Camille JULLIAN, Foreword by Julien VINSON, Introduction by P. LHANDE. Bayonne, Foltzer, 1923 (A.I. 1924). (Followed by:) La Tombe Basque - Recueil d'Inscriptions Funéraires et Domestiques du Pays Basque Français. [on cover: 1906-1924] Atlas of illustrations (Drawings and Photographs). Documents collected from cemeteries and dwellings in Labourd, Basse-Navarre and Soule. Published on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Société des Sciences, Lettres, Arts et Études Régionales de Bayonne. Biarritz, Grande Imprimerie Moderne, 1923. 2 parts in folio and large in folio : XXXII, 94pp. 1f. / t. ill. 402pp. 1f. ; all pages illustrated with drawings, some pages illustrated with photographs on glossy paper. Edition of 1,070 copies, one of 300 on Pont-de-Claix pur fil (no. 262). 2 volumes, leaves, text in green cover, 2-tone atlas in salmon cover. In a burgundy chagrined paper slipcase (2 small tears at the corners of the sides). A fine copy. COLAS talks about the 1914 war: "What losses you made in the war! A son and 16 nephews: you ask to end up with what? with the prospect of a new and terrible war of universal destruction in which what remains of European civilization will sink".