[BIGORRE] - Lot 41

[BIGORRE] Collection of 7 books: - Guide pittoresque du voyageur en France. Route de Paris à Bagnères-de-Bigorre. Département des Hautes-Pyrénées. 89th and 90th issues, 1838. In-8; 12 plates and one folding map. Bradel-style burgundy boards signed LAVAUX, black spine label. - BASCLE de LAGRÈZE (Gustave): Monographie de Saint-Pé. Paris, Didron, 1853. In-8. Bradel-style burgundy boards signed LAVAUX, gilt title on spine. The rarest of the trilogy. - BASCLE de LAGRÈZE (Gustave) : Monographie de l'Escale-Dieu. Paris, Didron, 1850. In-8. Bradel-style red cardboard signed LAVAUX, gilt title on spine. - COLOMEZ, abbé: Histoire de la Province & Comté de Bigorre written around 1735, first published and annotated by abbé Ferdinand DUFFAU. Paris, Champion ; Tarbes, Larrieu, 1886. In-8. ½ dark blue chagrin, gilt title on spine, figure at foot of Pierre Caillau Lamicq. An excellent publication. An important preface details the research carried out to discover the true author, Abbé COLOMEZ (perhaps Jean-Pierre de Colomés, Prébendé). Until then, the manuscript had been attributed to Abbé Jean-Paul DUCO. Davezac-Macaya and Deville were familiar with this text, of which La Boulinière was the first to give an extract, and which remained in manuscript form until 1886. - ROSAPELLY (Norbert) : Au Pays de Bigorre. Uses and Customs. Tarbes, Croharé, 1891. In-8. Bradel-style green cardboard signed LAVAUX, gilt title on spine. - DOUAIS (C.) : L'arrivée des bénédictins de Saint-Maur à Saint-Savin de Lavdean en 1625. Récit d'un témoin. Paris, Picard ; Toulouse, Privat, 1891. In-8. Bradel-style red cardboard signed LAVAUX, gilt title on spine. - CARDAILLAC (François Xavier Gabriel de): Les sculptures de l'abbaye de Larreule en Bigorre. Tarbes, Croharé, 1892. Large in-8, illustrations in text; author's autograph dispatch. ½ red cloth à la Bradel, gilt title-piece on spine.