Lot No: 9295

A Victorian Cartes de Visite photograph album containing 152 CdV's of notable and eminent persons circa 1860's-1870's, including Charles Dickens; John Ruskin; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Alfred Lord Tennyson; Anthony Trollope; Thomas Carlyle; Henry Irving; Wilkie Collins; Ralph Waldo Emerson; William Thackeray; Nathaniel Hawthorne; George Cruikshank; Charles Darwin; Giuseppe Verdi; Richard Wagner; Henry Morton Stanley; Birket Foster; Queen Victoria; Prince Albert; Napoleon III; Kaiser William I; Shah of Persia, Naser al-din-Shah Quajar; 3rd Marquis of Salisbury; Lord Palmerston; Otto von Bismarck; Helmuth von Moltke; George I, King of Greece; King Leopold II; Giuseppe Garibaldi etc etc, the majority of the CdV's captioned in pencil beneath to the card leaves of the album, contemporary calf album (externally worn, backstrip deteriorated, lacking one of the brass clasps), all edges gilt

Sale Price: £1,700.00