Collectif - Le Monde illustré - 1885

Le Monde illustré - 1885

The two semesters are bound into a thick volume. The year is therefore complete.

Le Monde illustré offers a detailed panorama of political, cultural and international news under the Third Republic. As a reference illustrated newspaper, it is distinguished by the richness of its iconography, its reports, its portraits and its chronicles on social, political and artistic life.

The year 1885 is marked by major events: the death of Victor Hugo in France, provoking immense national emotion; the Berlin Conference which organized the colonial partition of Africa; the fall of Khartoum and the death of General Gordon in Sudan; the Franco-Chinese War and the Treaty of Tianjin; as well as the first vaccination campaigns against rabies led by Louis Pasteur.

The work contains numerous illustrations, some in double pages, caricatures, as well as fold-out panoramas (up to 1 meter long).

1885, 28 x 38 cm, 410 + 410 pages. Half olive leather binding, smooth spine with title and year in gold. Binding rubbed. Foxing. Longitudinal crease on the first page. A tear in the leather at the top of the back and on the hinge.