The Story of the Philippines

Cloth; Very Good +; Gray cloth with red and blue illus., gilt lettering on the front panel and spine; only very minor edgewear head & tail of spine, gray endpapers, black and white frontis of General Merritt, the first Governor-General of the Philippine Islands; illustrated throughout with black and white plates. No interior markings, light toning. The full title is: THE STORY OF THE PHILIPPINES and Our New Possessions including The Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico - Natural Riches, Industrial Resources, Statistics of Productions, Commerce and Population; The Laws, Habits, Customs, Scenery and Conditions of the Cuba of the East Indies and the Thousand Islands of the Archipelagoes of India and Hawaii, with Episodes of Their Early History - The El Dorado of the Orient - Personal Character Sketches and Interviews with Admiral Dewey, General Merritt, General Aguinaldo and the Archbishop of Manila - History and Romance, Tragedies and Traditions of Our Pacific Possessions - Events of the War in the West with Spain and The Conquest of Cuba and Porto Rico - Splendidly and picturesquely illustrated with half-tone engravings from photographs, etchings from special drawings, and the military maps of the Philippines, prepared by the War Department of the United States. The Chapters are: The Origin of This Story of the Philippines; Admiral Dewey on His Flagship; Life in Manila. A very nice clean & tight copy. [Hertford, NC. USA.].