Le Combat Naval Devant Manille 1. Le <>, croiseur américain de 1re classe. 2. Le <>, croiseur américain de 2e classe.

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RARE hand-coloured photoprint, with unrelated map & view on verso; 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.