The Harbour, Manila.

Description

hand-coloured wood engraving.

RARE view from ‘The Comprehensive Atlas & Geography of the World…’. This well-known image was taken from the famous circumnavigation of Auguste-Nicolas Vaillant ‘Voyage autour du monde exécuté pendant les années 1836/1837 sur la Corvette La Bonite’; published by Akermann & Co. in Paris.