ALBUM AMICORUM. Album with 10 signed autograph manuscripts and poems, 1839-1854; small in-4 of 12 leaves (the rest blank), original binding, pale green hardback boards with gilt fillet frame, smooth black morocco spine with gilt fillets and ornaments. Album of Gabrielle Nicod de Ronchaud, née Benoit de Saint-Vandelin, mother of historian Louis de Ronchaud (1816-1887). Marquis de Foudras (Frontispiece poem, May 3, 1839), Baron d'Eckstein (Pisa, November 7, 1839, "Avoir de l'esprit, Madame?"), Alphonse de Lamartine ("You are the river that enters the ocean"..., unsigned), Louis de Ronchaud (poem A ma mère, January 1854), Charles Brifaut (poem "Quand je sens d'un air pu la fraîcheur passagère"...), Guillaume Hyde de Neuville (with poem Fragmens sur l'exil, Paris 23 mars 1840), Xavier Marmier (poem Sur mer), Charles Viancin (poem, L'insomnie d'un avare, Fable), Auguste Dusillet (poem "Veux-tu connaitre l'avenir"..., Avril 1851), Charles Weiss (quatrain Déclaration tardive, mai 1851).