With correspondence from (or to) Simin Palay - Lot 281

With correspondence from (or to) Simin Palay [PALAY (Maximin dit Simin)] Dictionnaire du Béarnais et du Gascon Modernes (Bassin Aquitain) embrassant les Dialectes du Béarn, de la Bigorre, du Gers, des Landes et de la Gascogne Maritime et Garonnaise. Paris, C.N.R.S., 1961. "Bibliothèque de l'Escole Gastou-Febus". In-4: XII, 1006pp, 3f. Text on three columns. Publisher's unbleached cloth boards, title in red on spine and upper board, spine yellowed. Second edition and first given by the CNRS with a 25pp. supplement, plus the separately printed supplement for the following 1974 edition. Reissued in 1974 and 1980 with further additions. PALAY was still alive at the time of this publication, in which he takes the opportunity to thank his former collaborators with a short history of the publication. Enclosed: CÉNAC-MONCAUT (Justin Édouard Mathieu) : Dictionnaire gascon-français. Dialecte du département du Gers, suivi d'un abrégé de grammaire gasconne. Paris, lib. Didron ; Dumoulin ; Aubry, 1863. In-8: VII, 143pp. ½ green contemporary chagrin, title and gilt fillets on smooth spine.