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by T Whitcombe Engraver D Havell R R

$3,750 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Lovely pair of color aquatints depicting a naval battle between the British and French in the Adriatic Sea during the Napoleonic Wars. A pair of engravings from a suite of hand-colored plates recounting the Battle of Lissa on March 13, 1811. The Battle of Lissa sometimes called the Battle of Vis; French: Bataille de Lissa; Italian: Battaglia di Lissa; Croatian: Viška bitka was a naval action fought between a British frigate squadron and a larger squadron of French

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