Lake Bombon [Taal Lake]

Description

hand-coloured wood engraving view of Taal Lake (formerly known as Bombón Lake) and Surroundings from “The Earth and its Inhabitants; the Universal Geography, vol. 15 chapter Australasia, p.249”;

This is the English translation of Reclus’s “Nouvelle Géographie Universelle – la terre et les hommes “, “edited by A.[ugustus] H.[enry] Keane)(1833-1912) for volumes 6-19 and together with E[rnest] G[eorge] Ravenstein (1834-1913) for volumes 5&6; Ravenstein edited volumes 1-4.”
“The English edition appeared almost simultaneously with the French, advance proofs of which were regularly supplied to me by Messrs. Hachette, the Paris publishers.”–Letter from Keane, 1902.