BASCLE de LAGRÈZE (Marc Flavien Antoine Gustave) - Lot 26

BASCLE de LAGRÈZE (Marc Flavien Antoine Gustave) (On the illustrated title) Guide-album aux eaux des Pyrénées. Barèges Valley, [Gazost, Cauterets], St Sauveur, Barèges. Published by ABADIE, Paris, sd. (after 1853) (at head of first leaf of text) Vallée de Barèges by G. BASCLE de LAGRÈZE. Large in-4: 1f. illustrated title (château de Lourdes on a portico) lithographed and colored, 60pp. 7 lithographed plates on tinted background, a map of the Lavedan valley by ABADIE de Sarrancolin on tinted background (rare foxing). ½ brown basane, smooth spine gilt fillets, gilt title on upper board (binding distressed with lack at foot but solid stitching). These works are usually incomplete with one or more plates, provided a reference model can be determined. List of plates: Église des Templiers à Luz - Saint Sauveur - Entrée du Chaos - Cascade de Baredgi à Gavarnie - Cirque de Gavarnie - Barèges - Lac d'Oncet and Pic du Midi de Bigorre. Provenance: From the Cherisey O'Gorman library, with color bookplate. Anne-Louise-Marie de Cherisey (1868-1914), Countess O'GORMAN by marriage in 1890 to Marie Joseph Ferdinand Gaétan comte O'Gorman (1861-1939). She died of an illness contracted while nursing wounded soldiers at her château de Pixerécourt near Nancy. Her husband, Gaétan Marie Joseph Ferdinand, Comte O'Gorman, a French landowner, was known for his many properties in Lorraine, including the Villa O'Gorman in Pau. The O'Gorman (or Mac Gorman) family, whose earliest records date back to the 12th century, belonged to the ancient nobility of Ireland. It originated in France around 1688-1691 with Arnold O'Gorman de Kilmurry, who followed James II. The eldest branch bears the title of Earl.