HUBERT LYAUTEY (1854-1934) SET OF TWO BOOKS, IN... Lot n° 808

1) A selection of Lyautey's letters Brie-Comte-Robert, Les Bibliolâtres de France, 1951. Copy no. 130, nominative, ‘specially printed for Jean Mayen’, (no indication of edition), on luxury paper from Papeteries du Marais, completed on 21 April 1951 by E. Baudelot, Imprimeur, Paris. 242 numbered pages, leaves in beige hardback folder, title page printed on cover with small illustration. 28 x 19.5 cm - Folder 29 x 20 x 3 cm 2) Letters from Tonkin and Madagascar (1894-1899) Paris, Librairie Armand Colin, 1933, third edition 1 vol. uncut, publisher's paperback, 664p. with 23 sketches in the text and in fine, 5 coloured maps out of text, 4 of which are fold-outs (plates II to V). Plate I French Indochina, Plate II Tonkin. Map of pirate zones, Plate III Tonkin. Preparation for the winter campaign, Plate IV Progress of pacification and occupation since 1st January 1896. Situation on 1st January 1898 [Madagascar], Plate V Administrative organisation at the end of the campaign (October 1898) [Madagascar]. Labelled top left on false title page ‘Award offered by the Société de Géographie Commerciale de Paris / Section de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes’. Cover and spine damaged, paper yellowed, maps in good condition. 23 x 16 x 3.5 cm Included: Letter accompanying the volume sent to be awarded a prize. 1 typed letter signed, addressed to Monsieur le Proviseur du Lycée de Nice. Nice, 29 June 1939. 1 p. headed paper ‘Société de Géographie Commerciale et d'Études Coloniales / Paris Section de Nice et des Alpes-Maritimes / Comité de propagande coloniale des Alpes-Maritimes". Cover and spine damaged, paper yellowed, maps in good condition. 27.4 x 21.4 cm Hubert Lyautey General, Marshal of France and member of the Académie française. His fame remains linked to his action in Morocco. A cavalry officer during the colonial wars, he served under Joseph Gallieni in Tonkin (1894-1897) and Madagascar (1897-1902).