Itinéraire Général de la France - Les Pyrénées

- Joanne's Guide Collection. by Paul Joanne. THE
PYRENEES. 10 maps, 9 panoramas and a projection of the Pyrenees chain. Paris, Librairie Hachette
et Cie, 79, Boulevard Saint-Germain, 79, 1882
.
Property and translation rights reserved.
Paris, Typographie Georges Chamerot, 19, rue des Saints-Pères]. In-12°. (18 x 11,5 cm)
f.t., t., LXXXIX pp. [Methodical table ; Preface ; Introduction], 1 f.impr.n.c., 599 pp., 1 f.bl.n.c., 92 pp. printed
on beige paper [Advertisements], 8 panoramas h.-t
.
(and not 9 as announced in the title and denied in the
Table) of which 6 folding.
[facing pp. 1, 4, 96, 166, 186, 296, 310, 352, 354, 508],
publisher's
binding.

List of the 8 panoramas by Victor Petit :
1 - Panorama of Pau [p. 56]
2 - Panorama of the Pic du Ger [p. 100]
3 - Panorama of the Piméné [p. 176]
4 - Panorama of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre [p. 248]
5 - Cirque of the Lis valley [p. 306]
6 - Panorama of Bagnères-de-Luchon [p. 344]
7 - Maladetta mountain and Vénasque valley






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View taken between the ports of Picade and Vénasque [p. 322].
8 - Maladetta mountain and high chain of the Pique valley [p. 350].
First edition under the name of Paul Joanne. The 1886 edition, revised by Lequeutre, is considered
the best
.
Editions under this name: 1882, 1885, 1885 with update in 1887, 1886, 1890 (2
vols.), 1890 with update 1892 (2 vols.), 1892 (2 vols.), 1894 (2 vols.), 1895 (2 vols.), 1895 with
update

1897 (2 vols.), 1896 (2 vols.), 1901, 1901 with update in 1902, 1903, 1905, 1907, 1907 with

update


in 1908, 1910 - Cent Ans, V, 84-86, 94, 98, 84 ~ VII, 17, 40, 238; Bibliographie Pyrénéiste, N° 772.
Bound in publisher's full navy blue percaline. Smooth spine with gilt title and false cold boxes. Cold decoration on the boards. First cover with gilt title, author and publisher's name. Binding slightly rubbed. All edges speckled. Paper very slightly browned. Good condition of the contents decorated with 10 off-text colour maps, 8 off-text black and white panoramas - 6 of them folding - made by Victor PETIT, and 1 off-text folding colour projection of the Pyrenees mountain range.