SAINT-SAUD (Aymar d'ARLOT de) baron - Lot 344

SAINT-SAUD (Aymar d'ARLOT de) baron Monography of the Picos de Europa (Cantabrian and Asturian Pyrenees). Études et Voyages. Paris, Girard & Barrère, 1937. Maps drawn by Colonel L. MAURY. Calculations by Colonel PRUDENT, Captain MAURY, Messrs EYDOUX and de SAINT-SAUD. Paris, Barrère ; La Roche-Chalais, l'auteur, 1922. Large in-8: XIV, 272pp; one out-of-text map, numerous illustrations in the text. Fine autograph dispatch from the author to Georges LEDORMEUR. The text part only, without the maps. This copy is full of album photographs from the late 19th century, free in the book. Paperback, publisher's gray cover. First edition, reissued in 1937. SAINT-SAUD, from a noble Périgord family, is well known for his genealogical works. A friend of Russell's, the excursionist discovered the then unexplored territory of Aragon from west to east, pursued 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 age of 98.