MAYER & PIERSON, DISDERI & CO., LONDON STEREOSCOPIC CO.

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MAYER & PIERSON, DISDERI & CO., LONDON STEREOSCOPIC CO.

Royalty and aristocracy, early 1860s

Album of forty-eight cartes-de-visite, each titled in ink on mount, red morocco with raised design of fleur-de-lis and central buckle in gilt on upper cover, edges gauffered in gilt with raised pattern of fleur-de-lis in blue, gilt clasps and mounts, sm. 8vo.

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Including The Emperor and Empress Napoleon III, Duc de Magenta, Count Walewsky, Lord Palmerston, Princess Mathilde, Prince Murat, Count Strogonoff, Prince and Princess Metternich, Le Comte de Mornay, Archille Fould, Duc de Malakoff, King and Queen of Naples, Lamartine, Proudhon, The Ambassadors of Siam, Count Bachiocci, The Duke and Duchess of Bassano, Le Comte de Persigny, Lord Derby, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Le Comte de Paris, La Duchesse de Berry, Le Comte de Chambord, Victor Hugo, Balzac, Alexandre Dumas and Halevy.

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