Galerie des Contemporains

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ANDRE ADOLPHE EUGENE DISDERI (1819-1889)
Galerie des Contemporains
Paris: n.p., 1862.
3 volumes, each with 25 albumen print cartes-de-visite. Each with printed credit, sitter's name and series title on mount. Mounted one-per page, tissue guards. Text by Dollingen. Each volume with list of sitters, title and half title. Red cloth, gilt, title and volume number in gilt on spine, g.e. 16mo. (3)

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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

Vol.I includes l'Empereur, l'Impératrice, le Prince Impérial, other princes and princesses and members of imperial family/household; Vol.II includes Verdi (2), Horace Vernet (3), Lugres (4) and Baron de Talleyrand; Vol.III includes Sir Robert Peel, Lord Palmerston and Baron J. de Rothschild.

Disdéri of Paris applied for a patent for the carte-de-visite on 27 November 1854.

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