[PAU - PYRÉNÉES ATLANTIQUES] - Lot 284

[PAU - PYRÉNÉES ATLANTIQUES] Reunion of 5 volumes: - ASFELD (Jean LATAPY ou LATAPIE dit d'): Souvenirs Historiques du Château de Henri IV et de ses Dépendances. Paris, Pagnère ; Pau, l'Auteur ; Toulouse, Ansas, Froment, 1841. In-12. ½ contemporary red calf, smooth spine decorated with rocaille irons. A good copy. First edition republished the same year. The work concludes with a choice piece: "La Bertat, ou Rèbe de moussu l'Abat Puyoo, de la Gentilhe maysou d'Esbarrebaque", which was published separately the same year. This text by Jacques de PUYOO (Pierre d'Esbarrebaque never existed), received by the Estates of Béarn in 1716, is "enriched" with comments by LATAPY, who has deliberately misappropriated some verses for the benefit of others. Provenance: Ex-libris Georges Delaporte. - BARTHE (Marcel): Le Bon Vieux Temps en Béarn. Extracts from a memoir published in 1845 in l'Intérêt de la Commune de Louvie-Soubiron et Listo. Pau, Véronèse,1874. In-8 paperback. Rousseurs. Rare. This politician was born in Pau in 1813. A journalist, then a jurist, he entered politics with little success before 1870. - DUBOUÉ, Dr.: Esquisse de climatologie médicale sur Pau et ses environs. Paris, Delahaye & Lecrosnier, 1880. Memoir submitted to the Basses-Pyrénées medical association. In-8. ½ red chagrin, gilt title on smooth spine. - MARQUE (Maurice): Essais sur l'Histoire de la Ville d'Oloron. Oloron, Marque, 1928. In-8 square. ½ period fawn basane, gilt title on spine. In 1900, this author published a complete version of the "Poblation d'Oloron" under the title "Le Cartulaire d'Oloron". - LECOEUR (Charles Clément): Monuments du Béarn. Monographie de l'Eglise de Sauveterre. Notice précédée de quelques indications sur la ville de Sauveterre. Pau, Vignancour, 1872. In-8. ½ fawn calf with filleted corners, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt head. Provenance: Printed Casenave bookplate ("Casenavii equitis").