HÜBNER (Joseph Alexander, Baron). Suite of six folio souvenir albums containing approximately five hundred travel drawings by Count Alexandre von Hübner (some foxing). Six numbered albums: - Volume 2 from 1841 to 1844: 83 watercolor drawings titled, located, dated and monogrammed (Portugal: Algarve, Sintra, Lisbon - Trafalgar - Algeria: Tangiers...) ; - Volume 3 from 1845 to 1852: 89 watercolor or pencil drawings, titled, located and dated (Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Normandy, Corsica...); - Volume 4 from 1856 to 1857: 71 pencil and watercolor drawings located (Albania, Greece, Venice, Naples, Perpignan, Dieppe, Trouville, Strasbourg, Nantes, Val d'Andorre, Foix...) ; - Volume 5 dated 1858 "voyage d'Espagne": 54 large-format drawings (Biarritz, Villa Eugénie)(foxing); - Volume 7 from 1862 to 1865: 73 pencil or watercolor drawings and locations (Constantinople, the Bosphorus, Orléans, Clermont, Spain, Ibiza, Oléron, Lourdes...) ; - Volume 9 from 1868 to 1874: 132 mainly pencil drawings or studies (Ireland, Norway, Japan, China, Central Africa, Crimea, Armenia, Russia, Caucasus). Note: Joseph Alexander von Hübner (1811-1892), whose real name was Josef Hafenbredl, also known as Count de Hübner, Baron de Hübner or Alexandre de Hübner, was an Austrian diplomat born in Vienna. Attaché, then embassy secretary and finally consul, he trained in several European embassies before being appointed Austrian ambassador to Paris, then to the Holy See. He is the author of several works on his missions and travels, providing invaluable insights into diplomatic life, as well as into countries that were not very open at the time, which he visited with insatiable curiosity, as much at ease with Chinese peasants as in the highest aristocratic circles. Raised to the title of Count in 1888, he was one of the most prominent political figures in the Austrian monarchy.