Author: E. Morieu
Publisher: Published in Paris.
Year: 1898
Size: 39.4 x 29.8 cm
Reference:
1. Carte de la baie de Manille. 2. Carte générale de îles Philippines. 3. Baie de Cavite. 4. Diagrame de forces respectives des eccadres américaine et espagnole au combat de Manille.
₱6,600.00
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Description
RARE hand-coloured wood engraving.
Full page with 3 maps from ‘L’Illustration, Journal Universel’. This weekly French magazine, founded by Edouard Charton, was published in Paris from 1843 to 1944. L’Illustration became the first French newspaper to publish a photograph in 1891 and a colour photograph in 1907. The magazine was shut down in 1944 following the Liberation of Paris. Another version re-opened in 1945 under the name France-Illustration, but went bankrupt in 1957.
Condition
minor stains.
