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Cartes de Visite. An album containing approximately 90 cartes de visite portraits of notable people of the day, circa 1860s, portraits from life include Isambard Kingdom Brunel [by Robert Howlett], Charles Lyell, David Livingstone, John Hanning Speke, Michael Faraday, David Brewster Robert Owen Rowland Hill, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, Florence Nightingale, Robert Napier, George Cruikshank John Leech Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, King Victor Emmanuel, Pope Pius IX, Benjamin Disraeli, Robert Peel Jr., Count Bismarck, Roderick Murchison, Charles Dickens Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray Bulwer Lytton, Daniel Dunglas Home [spirit medium], Victor Hugo Garibaldi, Mazzini, plus some portraits not from life, mostly annotated in pencil to mounts, contemporary embossed morocco, some corner wear, 4to (Qty: 1)