(CARTES-DE-VISITE.)

MILITARY. Album containing 197 cartes-de-visite portraits of major figures in the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR, comprising portraits of military personnel including THE CROWN PRINCE OF PRUSSIA, THE CROWN PRINCE OF SAXONY, GENERAL STEINMETZ, GENERAL ALVENSLEBEN, MARSHAL MACMAHON, MARSHAL BAZAINE, GENERAL BOURBAKI, and many others, with portraits of royalty including NAPOLEON III, EMPEROR WILLIAM OF PRUSSIA, COUNT BISMARK, and others, with portraits of clergy and reproductions of painted portraits; many identified by hand, in ink, below the portrait. Large 4to, gilt-lettered red morocco, covers detached, backstrip missing. 1871.