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Baden-Baden a. Nice 1877-79. ca. 200 pp., 47 of which with entries as well as 11 drawings and 2 photogr. reproductions. Red shagreen hardcover (signed: Gbr. Rodeck k.k. Hoflieferant) with 4 silver corner mounts and mounted crowned monogr. ("RW") of pierced silver plate and silver clasp (clasp missing, partly rubbed, cover cover missing). Friendship album, mainly with partly longer entries in French. Mostly with longer entries in French (poems, mottoes, declarations of friendship, etc.) by mostly noble ladies and gentlemen, including a Princess of Württemberg, Lilly von Kotzebue, Princess Pignatelli d'Aragon, Marie Gortchakov, Sophie de Démidoff, Sophie von Wimpffen, Baron von Behr, Georg von Oertzen, etc. Included are several pencil and charcoal drawings (a couple dancing, a fruit still life, a donkey, a sailing ship), a silhouette, a watercolor, etc. Locations are "Baden"(-Baden) a. Nice. - Some sheets loose, slightly browned due to paper, faint foxing in places. R