[COLLECTIVE ROAD BOOK] - Lot 323

[COLLECTIVE ROAD BOOK] Le Routier des Provinces Méridionales, Fragments d'Histoire et de Voyages, Chroniques, Romans... mostly unpublished by M. AYCARD, L.A. BERTHAUD... A. DUMAS... T. GAUTIER... V. HUGO... P. MÉRIMEE A. THIERS, etc. Toulouse, de Pablos, 1842. In-4: 1f., 554pp. (pagination disturbed between 473 and 480, 1f. bis between 518 and 519). Text framed; 2 woodcut folding plans and 12 lithographed plates by CONSTANTIN after LAGARRIGUE, COSTES, GÉLIBERT, SOULIE, MALBOS. Contemporary brown morocco, gilt title and gilt fillets on spine, triple gilt fillet on covers, double gilt fillet on edges, wide gilt inner lace, bumped corners, weak jaws, gilt edges. Complete with all plates and fresh inside. This monthly publication, which appeared in 1841 alone, is said to have had a print run of 3,000 copies. Also available under the label: "Toulouse, Lebon, 1841". Numerous texts on the Pyrenees, notably by NISARD (Eaux-Bonnes et Eaux-Chaudes; Pau), CUVILIER-FLEURY (Les Pyrénées), SAND (De Pierrefitte à Luz), SOUTRAS (Asté), THIERS (La vallée d'Argelès), etc. Texts on Landes, Pays Basque, Pyrénées-Orientales Most lithographs are on Pyrenean subjects (Labarère 1316).