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.

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.