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Including portraits of Presidents Thiers, MacMahon and Grévy; Prime Ministers Guizot and Gambetta; Ministers of State, Generals, Ambassadors, Maréchals de France, politicians, diplomats and other statesmen.
French military and political leaders, 1860s - 80s
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DISDERI, MAYER & PIERSON, PETIT, REUTLINGER, FRANCK and others
French military and political leaders, 1860s - 80s
Two French albums containing a total of 276 cartes-de-visite, two hand-tinted, various photographers' credits printed on mounts or on verso, inserted in pre-cut window mounts with arched corners, one album with gilt borders, the other with raised decorative paper borders, sitters identified with their dates in pencil in a later hand, each tan leather, one with diamond-pattern in blind on covers and spine, g.e., 4to., the other with raised pattern in different brown leathers and decorative gilt clasp, g.e., small 4to.; with fifteen loose cartes-de-visite and twelve cabinet cards. (29)
French military and political leaders, 1860s - 80s
Two French albums containing a total of 276 cartes-de-visite, two hand-tinted, various photographers' credits printed on mounts or on verso, inserted in pre-cut window mounts with arched corners, one album with gilt borders, the other with raised decorative paper borders, sitters identified with their dates in pencil in a later hand, each tan leather, one with diamond-pattern in blind on covers and spine, g.e., 4to., the other with raised pattern in different brown leathers and decorative gilt clasp, g.e., small 4to.; with fifteen loose cartes-de-visite and twelve cabinet cards. (29)