500 Célébrités Contemporaines. Collection Félix Potin

Paris, P. Jouet, n.d. (ca. 1900). 40 p. 501 (of 502) mounted orig. portrait photographs (all 7.5 x 4.2 cm) by a.o. Boyer, Nadar, P. Petit, L. Disdéri and E. Pirou. Orig. gilt-lettered faux leather (sl. worn). Obl. folio.

Lacking 1 portrait (V. Hugo), a few photos w. minor defects. Contains photographs of famous 19th cent. men and women in the fields of the arts, politics, royalty, science and sports (fencing and cycling) incl. a.o. Alma Tadema, Sarah Bernhardt (Reutlinger), A. Bruant, Jaap Eden (Barenne), T.A. Edison, G. Eiffel (E. Pirou), A. France (Reutlinger), E. de Goncourt (Nadar), F. de Lesseps (Nadar), Livingstone, Guy de Maupassant (Boyer), O. Mirbeau (Bary), L. Pasteur (E. Pirou), Puvis de Chavannes (Nadar), Roentgen, L. Tolstoi, G. Verdi, J. Verne (Nadar), R. Wagner and E. Zola (Nadar).