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[GLEIG (George Robert) - SAMAZEUILH (Jean-François)] 1/ GLEIG (George Robert): From San Sebastian to Bayonne. Journal de Campagne d'un Officier subalterne de l'armée de Wellington 1813-1814. Translated from the English by Charles GUIARD. Bayonne, Lamaignère, 1884. In 16: 1f., VI, 328pp. Bradel-style green morocco paper boards, red title-piece on spine, publisher's cover preserved. The preface signed "the Subaltern" is from March 1845. "This journal, of great interest for the history of the Bayonne blockade, is an engaging read and contains curious observations relating to the Bayonne region". The original under the title "the Subaltern" is from Edinburgh, W. Blackwood, 1825 (Barbe 412)(Labarère 659). 2/ SAMAZEUILH (Jean-François): Voyage de Bayonne aux Eaux-Bonnes et aux Eaux-Chaudes en passant par la Basse-Navarre et la Soule. Bayonne, Lamaignère, 1858. In-12 : 244pp. Bradel-style green morocco paper boards, red title page on spine, publisher's cover preserved. Contains, among other things, a brief nomenclature of the Ossau Ascensions and the text of Claude Venat's (extremely rare) 1818 Ascension report. Half of the text concerns the Basque country. Born in Casteljaloux in 1790, after studying law in Toulouse, Samazeuilh settled in Nérac in 1816 as a lawyer. He took time out from his professional life to travel, mainly for historical reasons, studying the past "with ardor, zeal and indefatigable perseverance", criss-crossing his department and all the surrounding territories, which led him to the Pyrenees, a favorite territory to which he devoted several works, from the foothills to the summits. (Barbe 835)(Bilbao VII, 379).