an album containing 310 mounted albumen print portraits of famous European historical, literary, political and social figures, mostly after engravings or drawings, but including at least 29 portraits from life, on 65 card leaves, most Êrte-de-visite' size, but with 9 larger images, original brown morocco with excellent inlaid marquetry panels, the upper panel inlaid with various specimen woods forming a scene of two peasant women and a dog in front of a cottage, the lower panel inlaid with flowers and painted in red "Nice", gilt dentelles, g.e., large 4to, [ Nice , c.1870]. The portraits range from the earliest Kings of France to Victor Hugo and Louis Napoleon the Prince Imperial, with the majority being 19th-century subjects. The portraits from life including Victor Hugo, Thiers, Guizot, Michelet, Cavour, Rossini, Napoleon III and Louis Napoleon the Prince Imperial.