Foix, Veuve Pomiès, 1884. 8vo (19.8 x 12.9 cm). xv, 183 pp. 20th-century Spanish style half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with four raised bands, and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Original printed wrappers bound in.

A luxuriously bound copy of a rare work by the French industrialist, politician, journalist, mayor, architect, inventor, archaeologist, and anthropologist Thomas Émile Adolphe Garrigou (1802-1893), dealing with the origin of the first people to populate the Iberian Peninsula. Well-written and thought-provoking. Original wrappers re-backed; otherwise a very good, clean, complete copy.