Alps - Pyrenees - Lot 136

Alps - Pyrenees ENGEL (Claire Eliane) La Littérature Alpestre en France et en Angleterre au XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. Chambéry, Dardel, 1930. Large in-8: XII, 288pp; illustrated with 12 plates out of text. Paperback, publisher's full buff cover. Bibliography and table at end of volume. Alpine study comparable in interest to our Fourcassié, Marguerite Gaston and Duloum. An indispensable post-graduate thesis for the Pyrenean bibliophile (if only to prove that Pyreneanists are not narrow-minded). An excellent work covering the Alps and a little of the Pyrenees. A whole chapter for Ramond. With Charles Vallot, she published a "Tableau Littéraire du Mont-Blanc" the same year, and in 1934-36 another important work in the same vein: "Ces Monts Affreux..., ces Monts Sublimes...". (Perret 1499). Provenance: Printed bookplate of Jacques Laget. Attached: DRIOU (Alfred) : Alpes et Pyrénées. Voyage en Suisse et en Savoie, dans le Béarn, la Navarre, le Bigorre et le Comminges, Ascensions de montagnes, pics et glaciers, Traversées de mers de glace, oules, cols et ports, Visite de lacs, cascades et vallées, Excursions aux ruines, Courses à pied, à cheval, en steamers, en poste, en voiturins. Limoges, Barbou, s.d. (circa 1857). "Bibliothèque Chrétienne et Morale". Large in-8; illustrated with 4 two-tone lithographs. Contemporary ½ brown chagrin, ornate spine ribbing, wear rubs, gilt edges. The Pyrenees occupy pp. 162 to end with 2 interesting lithographs featuring Saint-Béat and Maladetta. Provenance: Ex-libris Geneviève Levointurier.