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LSE4334461: Panorama of Buenos Aires (Argentina). Engraving by Slom to illustrate the story Voyage a la Plata, three months of vacation by Emile Blaireaux in 1886, in the tour du monde 1887, under the direction of Edouard Charton (1807-1890), Hachette, Paris., Slomszynski, Andre (Slom) (1844-1909) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4334741: A tepe on the Zanzibar market (Tanzania). Engraving by G.Vuillier, to illustrate the story Voyage among the Benadirs, Somalis and Bayouns, in 1882 and 1883, by G.Revoil, in le tour du monde 1888, directed by Edouard Charton (1807-1890), Hachette, Paris., Vuillier, Gaston (1847-1915) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4335510: Arrival in Victoria, Canada. Engraving by Th.Weber, to illustrate the story “” the Transcanadien et l'Alaska”” by E.Cotteau, in 1890, in Le tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages, edited by Edouard Charton (1807-1890), 2nd semester 1891, edition Hachette, Paris., Weber, Theodore (1838-1907) / Bridgeman Images
LSE4403606: Second Opium War (1856-1860): In 1858, the Chinese government agreed to legalize the trade in opium. “” Taking advantage of the circumstance to engage the Chinese to pay for two hundred million opium””, in series En Chine, illustration by Honore Daumier (1808-1879), published in “Charivari”, 1858., Daumier, Honore (1808-79) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4409307: Conquete of the Kingdom of England by William the Conquerant, 1066: the Duke of Normandy (1027-1087) burned the ships on which his army travelled, in order to force his soldiers to fight or die. Engraving by Jean Michel Moreau, dit Moreau le Jeune (1741- 1814), 18th century., Moreau, Jean Michel the Younger (1741-1814) / Bridgeman Images