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DE LESSEPS, FERDINAND (1805-1894) and HELOISE DE LESSEPS. A pair of cartes-de-visite photographs signed ("Ferdinand de Lesseps" and "Heloise de Lesseps"), by The London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company respectively, Ch. Reutlinger, London and Paris (imprint on verso), n.d. [circa 1870]. Each 105 x 63 mm. (4 1/8 x 2½ in.) including mount. Two formal portraits of the creator of the Suez Canal and his wife, signed on the lower mount and the lower portion of the image respectively. (2)