People flee from an earthquake which is destroying mosques and buildings in the city of Constantinople (Istanbul), 1765. Bodies in wreckage. Le tremblement de terre. Handcolored lithograph by Emile Lemaitre from Munerelle’s Les Phenomenes et Curiosites de la Nature (Natural Phenomena and Curiosities), Libraire Derivaux, Strasbourg, 1856.

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