Photographic album, cartes de visite, c.1860s-1870s

SELECTION OF CARTES DE VISITE OF EUROPEAN POLITICAL FIGURES, c.1860s-1870s, subjects include Henry John Temple (1784-1865), William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley (1799-1869), Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), Richard Cobden (1804-1865), Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), Cavour, Count Camillo Benso di (1810-1861), Helmuth von Moltke (1848-1916), photographers and publishers include John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813-1901), W. & D. Downey (active 1855-1940), Maull & Polyblank (active 1854-1865), the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, Carneiro & Gaspar (active 1865 -1875), Henry Hering (1814-1893), W&J Brookes (xx), . Cartes de visite (153), albumen prints, image size, approx. 100 x 70mm, some examples with photographer’s name in card lower margin, others with photographer name and stamp card verso, some with photographer’s name in the negative, others with pencil annotations card verso, some titled in card lower margin.