Henri Béraldi

Henri Béraldi with his son and others during an ascent of Aneto, the highest mountain in the Pyrenees, ca. 1900.

Henri Béraldi (or Beraldi) (Paris 6 February 1849 31 March 1931 Paris) was a French bibliophile, publisher and author of books on the Pyrenees and on French printmakers of the 19th century.

Henri Béraldi was the son of Pierre Louis Béraldi, a senator in the Third Republic between 1876 and 1885.[1] Henri married Mathilde Gavet in 1880. They had five children, including Pierre and André Béraldi, both chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur, and Jacques Béraldi, an officier in the same order.

The collection of Henri Béraldi consisted mainly of French illustrated books and books with special bindings, and was considered one of the four most important collections of its type, together with the collections of Ferdinand James von Rothschild, Louis Roederer and Robert Schuhmann.[2]

He enjoyed holidays in the spa town of Bagnères-de-Luchon in the Pyrenees, and became a noted writer on the range. Pic Béraldi, also known as the Eriste N or the Bagüeñola Norte, is a 3,205m-high peak in the Spanish Province of Huesca named after him.[3]

Béraldi was the president of the Société des Amis des Livres from 1901 to 1931,[4] and an officier of the Légion d'honneur.[1]

After his death in 1931, his collection (minus a selection of books on the Pyrenees, which was donated to the library of Toulouse) was sold in a five-day auction in 193435.

Books by Béraldi

Books published by Béraldi

Notes

  1. 1 2 Wright, Vincent (2007). Les préfets de Gambetta. Presses Paris Sorbonne. p. 482. ISBN 978-2-84050-504-4. Retrieved 2 February 2011.
  2. "Famous Schuhman library to be sold". The New York Times. 9 May 1920. Retrieved 2 February 2011.
  3. Reynolds, Kev (2004). The Pyrenees: The High Pyrenees from the Cirque de Lescun to the Carlit Massif. Cicerone Press Limited. p. 297. ISBN 978-1-85284-420-2. Retrieved 2 February 2011.
  4. Silverman, Willa Z. (2008). The new bibliopolis: French book collectors and the culture of print, 1880-1914. University of Toronto Press. p. 312. ISBN 978-0-8020-9211-3.
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