Cartes de visite. An album of about 80 cartes de visite, c.1870. 4to album (305 x 230 mm),...
Cartes de visite. An album of about 80 cartes de visite, c.1870. 4to album (305 x 230 mm), contemporary embossed black padded morocco over bevelled boards, metal clasp extant, gilt edges, a few sitters accompanied by their dogs, studios including E. Greaves of Halifax, C. Johnson of Leeds, and similar, the album also including 4 cabinet cards, at least 2 real-photo postcards, and a few near-contemporary gelatin-silver print portraits, all window-mounted rectos and versos in stiff card leaves, gilt frames throughout, a few leaves with chromolithographic floral borders (including title-page, with title 'Album, Lingua floris', and index leaf, together with: 5 similar cabinet-card albums (all blank, one with backstrip perished); 2 photograph albums of Switzerland, one dated 1907-9, containing 116 albumen prints, all personal snapshot-style photographs, manuscript title 'Sunny Memories of Switzerland' and ownership inscription 'Alfred Orme' to initial blank, the other c.1930, containing 60 gelatin-silver prints, apparently professional views; and a large blank album, c.1900. large folio (415 x 290 mm), contemporary red half roan, with 30 linen-hinged stiff card leaves (qty: 9)