Bayonne - Biarritz - Saint-Jean-de-Luz - Lot 158

Bayonne - Biarritz - Saint-Jean-de-Luz [LAGARDE (Isidore), abbé] A summer season in Biarritz. Biarritz in the past, Biarritz today. Biarritz autrefois et aujourd'hui. Historical and descriptive tables, anecdotes, stay of the Imperial Court by a regular at the Biarritz sea baths. Bayonne Impr. de Lamaignère 1859 (followed by) GOYETCHE (Léonce) : Saint-Jean-de-Luz historique et pittoresque. Annales et chronique depuis l'époque de sa fondation présumée jusqu'à nos jours. Notice sur son établissement de bains de mer et ses environs. Bayonne, Larroulet ; Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Lionnet et Miejeville, 1856. 2 works in one volume in-12: VII, 5-176pp. - XI, 223pp. Copy with numerous handwritten notes in ink on all blank pages, some chapter ends and also in the text margins, as well as inserted drawings and sections (La Rhune, Saint-Jean-de-Luz bay). Wet stamps from former libraries. Contemporary long-grain green chagrin, ornate smooth spine, publisher's covers preserved. The author describes what Biarritz was like around 1829. Some passages on the Cacolet and Basque Sunday. Rare (Barbe 517), Also included: GERMOND de LAVIGNE (Alfred Léopold Gabriel): Around Biarritz. Promenades à Bayonne, à la frontière et dans le Pays basque. Second edition. Paris, Hachette, sd. (1858). In-16: 2f., VIII, 156pp. Light half-mark at bottom of first few leaves. Publisher's red boards. Excellent condition. This work took the form of a "Guide Joanne" in 1870 and subsequent years. Barbe, who devotes no less than 2 pages to this work, believes that "it is, from the point of view that interests us here, the best edition of this little work. We may find GERMOND de LAVIGNE exuberant at times, but never boring" (Barbe 405 b).