Thermal baths - Bagnères-de-Bigorre, Béarn - Lot 234

Thermal baths - Bagnères-de-Bigorre, Béarn LEROUGE (Antoine), dom Les passe-temps agréables des eaux minérales de Bagnères en Bigorre, et du Béarn, et leurs propriétés. Paris, Lerouge, 1785. 2 volumes in-12: 2f., VI, VIII, 232pp., 6pp. (table) / 3f., 186pp., 5pp., 4f. ½ marbled fawn contemporary basane, smooth spines, red titles and tomaisons, gilt fillets, rubbing on boards, red edges. Lerouge is the author of several works on agriculture. The Privilège is dated September 1783, but no earlier edition appears to exist. This work skilfully mixes the descriptive and picturesque with medical and scientific reflections on waters, all seasoned with many frivolities. A few fragments on Ax, Eaux-Bonnes, Luchon, Capvern, etc. are included. Labarère describes the work as very rare. DELAFAYE BRECHIER (Julie): Le vieillard des eaux. Contes et nouvelles à l'usage de la jeunesse. In-12. Frontispiece and vignette on title page. Tan granulated basane, ornate smooth spine, red title-piece, gilt roulette framing the boards, small leather losses at 2 worn corners, gilt roulette on the edges, marbled edges.