One of the XX rarest Pyrenean books - Saint-Amans copy - Lot 340

One of the XX rarest Pyrenean books - Saint-Amans copy SAINT-AMANS (Jean Florimond BOUDON de) Collection of the author's publications, including the "Fragmens", one of the XX rarest Pyrenean books (in two volumes): -* 1/ Fragmens d'un Voyage Sentimental et Pittoresque dans les Pyrénées, ou Lettre écrite de ces Montagnes. Metz, Devilly, 1789 - * Éloge de Charles von Linné, conseiller de l'Étoile Polaire (Agen, Vve Noubel et fils, 1791) - * 2/ Recherches sur la cause & les remèdes de la maladie qui détruit les arbres des promenades d'Agen (Agen, Vve Noubel, 1789) - * 3/ Couronne civique - * 4/ Les membres composant le jury d'instruction du district d'Agen - * 5/ Traité élémentaire, sur les plantes les plus propres à former les prairies artificielles (Agen, Vve Noubel, an III) - * 6/ Rapport fait au Conseil du département de Lot et Garonne, sur les maladies caronculaires auxquelles les bestiaux sont sujets, principalement dans les zones pluvieuses (Agen, Vve Noubel, 1793) - * 7/ Instruction sur l'épizootie charbonneuse - * 8/ Mémoire sur l'usage d'un savon naturel - * 9/ Médée. Tragedy translated from English by M. de Saint-Amans (Paris, Vve Ballard & fils, 1786). In-8: 2f., IV, 1f., 260pp. - 32pp. - 27pp. - 4pp. - 8pp. / 4f., 151pp. ; one folding table - 1f., 26pp. - 16pp. - 8pp. - 2f., 175pp. Handwritten note by Boudon de Saint-Amans (page 250 of the Fragmens) Contemporary shagreened basane, ornate smooth spines, Saint-Amans numeral between caissons, one headband torn off, rubbing and bumping from use, triple gilt fillet with fleurons in spandrels framing the boards, small leather chips on the edges, worn corners, marbled edges. Also included: LÉONARD de Paris: La règle du troisième ordre de S. François, appelé l'Ordre de la Pénitence. Pau, Barthe, sd. In-16. Contemporary granite brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated, rubbed, speckled edges, Saint-Amans figure on boards. Provenance: Copy from the Saint-Amans library, acquired by Philippe de Lauzun (mauve wet stamp and pencil note). "It is impossible to make science more amiable and attractive than our traveler did in his Lettres, and to better disguise its aridity, and save the tedium of details and technical nomenclatures". One of the 20 rarest Pyrenean books. This learned naturalist was born in Agen in 1748. Fascinated by his native Lot et Garonne, to which he devoted most of his work, an insatiable curiosity drove him to the Pyrenean heights on his famous "Voyage Sentimental", here in its original edition, tastefully republished in 1979 (Labarère 1404)(Labarère, XX livres pyrénéistes les plus rares, n° XVII). Provenance: Copy from the library of Boudon de Saint-Amans, with his figure repeated on the spine.