Lot 296
Carte-de-Visite albums
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2018 at 12:00 BST
Description
A collection of 7 French carte-de-visite albums, including one relating to the Charpentier family of Brest, with 16 cabinet cards and many cartes-de-visite by Otto Mertens, M. Berthaud, A. Boname, Giraud and others, c.1870s-90s; a small album relating to the Desouches family, containing 27 cartes-de-visite; a small album of 34 cartes-de-visite, many taken by Horde; a small album of 22 photographs, including several featuring women carefully posed outdoors, and a couple feeding pigeons; an album containing 63 cartes-de-visite by A. Crolard, Jally, Paul Berthier, Piroum Madame de Hermann and others, including Captain Massé of Madagascar and Borelli of Constantinople; and 2 others; [ALSO] a small British album containing 37 carte-de-visite photographs by Pflaum & Co., Mayall, W.W. Hughes and Edmonds, Maull & Fox, and others, including General Colley, Charles Hallé, Bismarck and Thomas Carlyle (8)