Jacottet's two albums reunited - Lot 193

Jacottet's two albums reunited JACOTTET (Louis Julien) Souvenirs des Pyrénées ou choix des sites les plus pittoresques des Établissemens Thermeaux (sic) et des Environs. Paris, Gihaut Frères 1835-36. (Followed by) Souvenirs des Pyrénées - Nouvelles Excursions... Paris, Gihaut, [1841-42] (Followed by) Touriste pyrénéen ou choix de dessins sur les Pyrénées. Lithographs by PARIS. Basses Pyrénées, Pau, Eaux-Bonnes, Eaux-Chaudes. Paris, Thierry, s.d. (1842). In folio: 1/ Souvenirs: title illustrated with a vignette (Beaucens), 50 plates numbered 1-50 + 3 plates numbered 1-3 and one plate without number (Pont de la Bidassoa). 2/ Nouvelles excursions: title, table and 50 plates numbered 1-50. Loose sheets (Souvenirs) and sheets in cream-colored title folder (Nouvelles Excursions). Together in ½ burgundy percaline folder with red morocco boards, all in ½ tan basane box, gilt title on smooth spine. Reunion of the two albums on the Pyrenees: 1835-36 with 50 plates plus the 5 supplement plates that are not always there, especially the last one. It corresponds to the trip made in 1834 and 1835. A second part, 1841-42, entitled "Nouvelles Excursions", with 50 plates. Painter and lithographer born (it seems) in Paris, (1806-1880), confused with a Swiss namesake. Marguerite Gaston calls him Swiss, but gives no date. Author of numerous collections of views of European water cities. Although he exhibited paintings, his life sketches were done in pencil and mainly monogrammed. The Doazan and Caillau-Lamicq collections enriched their holdings on this occasion (Harambourg Dict. des Peintres Paysagistes Français au XIXe p. 191) (Benezit VI, 8)(M. Gaston 260-61 and 329-30).