75/4812 [Picture postcards. France]. Collection of ±680 (col.) picture postcards, ±1900-1960, occas. used, loosely inserted in contemp. dec. cl. album, 4to.

- A few w. sm. defects. Backstrip loose; sl. bumped along extremities.

= Extensive collection on French historical persons, events, a series on Versailles and important French manuscripts, comprising photographic/ photo-engr./ engr. portraits. Among the historical figures a large number of Napoleon, further i.a. Henri the first, Isabelle de Hainaut, Louis VIII, Charles V, Jeanne de Boulogne, Charlotte de Savoie, Catharine de Médicis, Louis XVI, René Descartes, Admiral de Coligny, Cardinal Fleury, Cardinal de Richelieu, Jean Racine, Jean François de la Fontaine, Anne de Bretagne, J.-J. Rousseau, Marie Leczinska, Marie-Antoinette, Louis Philippe d'Orléans, Princess Mathilde, Cardinal Fesch, Eugène de Beauharnais, Ramolino, Joseph Agricole Viala, M.M.J. Robespierre; Charles Lebrun, Jacques Louis David, General Lafayette, Lazare Carnot, Joachim Murat, Béranger, Guizot, Victor Hugo and Chateaubriand. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXIX.