LASSUS (Marie Marc de) baron - Lot 224

LASSUS (Marie Marc de) baron Les Guerres du Dix-Huitième Siècle sur les Frontières du Comminges, du Couserans et des Quatre-Vallées. Extract from the Revue de Comminges, 1893 and 1894. Saint-Gaudens, Abadie, 1894. In-8: 3f., 144pp. Edition of fifty numbered copies (n°7). Contemporary red chagrin, ornate ribbed spine, wide gilt lace decoration on boards, gilt fillet in frame, gilt fillet on edges, wide gilt lace inside, publisher's grey cover preserved, gilt edges. A fine copy in excellent condition. Very rare. The original "book" is in fact from 1894, in a confidential edition of 50 copies. According to De Gorsse, the first war (1701-1715) appeared in Revue du Comminges tome VIII, 1892, and the second war (1719-1720) in the same journal, tome IX, 1893. An "in-8 volume" (our present copy) was published in August 1894 (de Gorsse 2922)(Labarère 871).