SAINT-SAUD (Aymar d'ARLOT de) baron - Lot 343

SAINT-SAUD (Aymar d'ARLOT de) baron Monography of the Picos de Europa (Cantabrian and Asturian Pyrenees). Studies and Travels. New edition. Maps drawn by Colonel L. MAURY. Scientific notes by the same author. Calculations by Colonels PRUDENT and MAURY, Messrs EYDOUX and de SAINT-SAUD. Preface by F. SCHRADER. Paris, Girard et Barrère, 1937. Text in-8: 264 pp, 1f; photo illustrations in text, one map out of text / Maps: - Monographie des Picos de Europa - Cartes dressées et dessinées par le Col. MAURY. Paris, Girard et Barrère, 1938]. 2 folding maps: a large general map in 2 tones, 3 black maps per sector (central eastern and western) and a small general map (the same as the one bound in the text), a general map in two tones, all grouped on 3 plates. Paperback, publisher's gray cover, maps loose. A small weakness in the binding. A complete copy of the second edition. The original is from 1922. Only one map is bound into the volume. The 4 others were given separately in a printed envelope (here, the envelope is not preserved). A small remark concerning these maps: some copies of this work are indeed without the envelope, but with 5 maps on 3 plates (like this copy): 1/ the large map alone, 2/ the eastern and central maps, 3/ the western map and the small general map found bound in the text. Simply cut the double plates and glue the small map onto an envelope that can easily be made to fit the format, to obtain a more "standard" copy with 4 maps + the one in the envelope. The large general map is dated May 1914, but published in 1920-21, and here in an unaltered second edition, thanks to the collaboration of the people listed in the title. "Obra acabada, concienzuda y formidable que constituye, hasta hoy, la mas valiosa aportaciòn cientifico-literaria a nuestro montañismo". SAINT-SAUD, from a noble Périgord family, is well known for his genealogical works. Closer to the mountains, he was a Pyrenean, a friend of Russell's, the excursionist who discovered the then unexplored territory of Aragon from west to east, who continued his Hispanic conquest and made the Picos de Europa his privileged terrain, where no one now goes without uttering his name. He died in 1951 at the venerable age of 98.