EUROPE: A good selection of seven 8vo pages removed from an album bearing eighteen signatures, most to the recto only, by various members of royal and noble families etc., mainly European and the majority pre-1950, including Maria Leticia Bosch Labrus y Blat (1890-1944) Duchess of Durcal, Mohammed Ali Tewfik (1875-1955) Egyptian Prince, Heir presumptive of Egypt and Sudan 1892-99, 1936-52, Dmitri Alexandrovich (1901-1980) Russian Prince, nephew of Tsar Nicholas II and President of the Romanov Family Association 1979-80, Christian of Hesse-Philippstahl-Barchfeld (1887-1971) Prince of Hesse, and his wife Princess Elizabeth of Hesse (d.1957), Prince Alexander of Teck (1874-1957) Alexander Cambridge, 1^st Earl of Athlone, British Major General who served as Governor General of Canada 1940-46, Don Carlos, Prince of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1870-1949) Infante of Spain, Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1860-1919) Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen, Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1878-1942) Princess Consort of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, wife of Ernst II, Peter II (1923-1970) King of Yugoslavia 1934-45, Alexandra of Greece and Denmark (1921-1993) Greek and Danish Princess, Queen consort of Yugoslavia 1944-45, Aspasia Manos (1896-1972) Princess Aspasia of Greece and Denmark, wife of King Alexander I of Greece, Franz Joseph II (1906-1989) Prince of Liechtenstein 1938-89, Countess Georgina von Wilczek (1921-1989) Princess of Liechtenstein 1943-89, wife of Prince Franz Joseph II, Friedrich Leopold (1895-1959) Prince of Prussia, German art collector and dealer who was an inmate at Dachau concentration camp during World War II, etc. Some very light, minor age wear and a few tape stains to the edges, generally VG, 7

Provenance: The present pages were removed from the personal album of Baron Robert Stuker (1863-1940) Swiss historian, interpreter, diplomat and educator, a language specialist who was appointed tutor at the Greek Royal Court under King George I. Stuker was later appointed as Royal Chamberlain, Court Librarian and Personal Secretary to the King. Stuker accompanied members of the Greek Royal family on trips, took on sensitive diplomatic missions and became the King's advisor. Following his service with the Greek Royal family, Pope Pius XI appointed the Reformed Protestant Stuker as master of ceremonies and interpreter at the Vatican in 1924, posts he was to hold until 1935. In later years the album was added to whilst in the custody of Jurg Stuker (1914-1988) Swiss antiquarian bookseller and founder of the Stuker auction house in Bern, stepson of Robert Stuker.