ThePhilippine Islands1493–1898
ThePhilippine Islands1493–1898
ThePhilippine Islands1493–1898
ThePhilippine Islands
1493–1898
Being the history of the Philippines from their discovery to the present time.
Explorations by early Navigators, descriptions of the Islands and their Peoples, their History, and records of the Catholic Missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial, and religious conditions of those Islands from their earliest relations with European Nations to the end of the nineteenth century.
Translated, and edited and annotated byE. H. BlairandJ. A. Robertson,with introduction and additional notes byE. G. Bourne.
With Analytical Index and Illustrations. Limited edition, 55 volumes, large 8vo, cloth, uncut, gilt top. Price $4.00 net per volume.
“The almost total lack of acceptable material on Philippine history in English gives this undertaking an immediate value.” —James A. Le RoyinAmerican Historical Review.
“With our freshened interest in the Far East, American readers ought not to neglect the new possessions in that region which now fly the Stars and Stripes”—Chicago Evening Post.
“Now at least there should be no difficulty for the American student to gain a clear view of the difficulties which both the Spaniards and their successors have had to contend with in these islands, when they have this work before them, and have not, as formerly, to obtain information from obscure Spanish sources, in a language hitherto comparatively little studied in the United States, ... welcome to all students of the Far East.”—English Historical Review.
“The bare title hardly conveys an idea of the interesting lore embraced in this admirably carried out study of the roads and their part in the development of the country.”—Boston Globe.