André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819-1889)

ALBUM CONTAINING 49 CARTES DE VISITE PHOTOS OF EMINENT VICTORIANS by DISDERI with one by HAYES & PIERSON INCLUDING 4 of Aimable PELISSIER, 1^st Due de Malakoff (1794-1854, Marshal of France who served in the Crimean War), 2 of Queen Maria Christina of Spain (1806-1878, Queen Consort of Ferdinand VII), 3 of James Bruce, 8^th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863, Colonial Administrator and Diplomat), 2 of William Hamilton, 11^th Duke (1811-1863, Scottish Nobleman), Philip Henry Stanhope, 5^th Earl (1805-1875, Politician), 5 of Colin Campbell, 1^st Lord Clyde (1792-1863, Field Marshall in the Peninsular War and the War of 1812), 4 of Boniface de Castellane (1788-1862, Marshal of France), Prince Peter Gortschakoff (1790-1869, General in the Imperial Russian Army), Bernard Pierre Magnan (1791-1865, Marshal of France), Prince Andrey Alexandrovich Lieven (1839-1913), 2 of Francois Marcellin Certain de Canrobert (1809-1895, French Marshal), 2 of Baron James Rothschild (1792-1868, German French Banker), 2 of Count Alexandre Walewski (1810-1868, Illegitimate son of Napoleon I, Statesman under Napoleon III), a composite of Marshals of France, King William III of the Netherlands (1817-1890, son of William II and Anna Pavlovna of Russia), 2 of Constantino Nigra (1828-1907, Italian Diplomat) and 2 of George Peabody (1795-1869, American Financier and Philanthropist), in original morocco album with brass catch, together with another 8 carte de visites by Disderi including Francoise Mignet (1796-1884, French Journalist and historian of the Revolution), Horace Vernet (1789-1863, French Painter), Adolph Thiers (1797-1877, Marshall of France) and a hand tinted carte by Weston and Sons of a woman standing by a piano