[CARTES-DE-VISITE]: A good collection of thirty vintage unsigned carte-de-visite photographs of various nineteenth century chemists, physicists, physiologists, surgeons, naturalists, mathematicians and other scientists, many of them French, each contained in a contemporary album, the sepia albumen prints including Michel Eugene Chevreul (1786-1889) French chemist whose early work with animal fats revolutionised the manufacture of soap and candles, Claude Bernard (1813-1878) French physiologist, Marcellin Berthelot (1827-1907) French chemist, Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) French chemist and microbiologist; two images, Armand Trousseau (1801-1867) French internist; two images, Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) French scientist, a pioneer of photography and cinema, Henri Etienne Sainte-Claire Deville (1818-1881) French chemist; two images, Edmond Fremy (1814-1894) French chemist, Auguste Andre Thomas Cahours (1813-1891) French chemist and scientist whose contribution to organic chemistry was one of the greatest in history, Louis Hubert Farabeuf (1841-1910) French surgeon, Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817-1884) Alsatian French chemist, Rudolf Clausius (1822-1888) German physicist and mathematician, considered one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics, Michael Faraday (1791-1867) English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry, Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) English biologist and anthropologist, known as 'Darwin's Bulldog', Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) German zoologist and naturalist who promoted and popularised Darwin's work in Germany, Charles Darwin (1809-1882) English naturalist, famous for his theory of evolution published in On the Origin of Species; two images, Eduard von Hartmann (1842-1906) German philosopher, Ernst Viktor von Leyden (1832-1910) German internist, Henry Thompson (1820-1904) British surgeon and polymath, Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) German physicist and physician, Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902) German physician, known as the 'father of modern pathology', Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862) French physicist, astronomer and mathematician, John Tyndall (1820-1893) Irish physicist, Paul Broca (1824-1880) French physician, anatomist and anthropologist, and a few others. Photographers include Cyrus Anatole Pougnet, Jean-Nicolas Truchelut, Charles Reutlinger, Emil Koch, Barraud & Jerrard, Elliott & Fry etc. Each of the sitters are identified in pencil to a panel beneath the images. The album with raised decorations to the covers and spine and with two metal clasps. All edges gilt. Some light overall age wear and a few of the images with some spotting. G