MAYALL, SILVY, DISDERI and others

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MAYALL, SILVY, DISDERI and others

World leaders and prominent Britons, 1860s

Album of 157 albumen prints, the majority cartes-de-visite, but including prints to 7½ x 9½ in., nineteen hand-coloured, each titled in ink on mount or on inserted paper label, full red embossed morocco, g.e., gilt clasp, 4to.

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Royal and imperial families and leading political figures of Britain, France, Prussia, Greece, Denmark, Belgium, Mexico, Turkey, Russia, Portugal, Bavaria, Italy, Egypt and Austria with portraits of the Tycoon of Japan, The Maharajah Duleep Singh, Abd -El-Kadar, Schamyl and Sir David Brewster.

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