Story of the Philippines & Our New Possessions

 Including The Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba, & Porto Rico the Eldorado of the Orient

This is a UNIQUE copy.

The cover has been attached upside down and back to front.

Maybe the ONLY copy of its type

Our Possessions Publishing Co, Chicago, 1898. Cloth Bound Boards.

Book Condition: Good+.

Title page says "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 Eldorado of the Orient. Personal character sketches of 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.

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." 512 pages.

Black and white frontis with tissue guard. Inner hinge splitting. 

This island is THE ELDORADO OF THE ORIENT, personal character sketches of and interviews with Admiral Dewey, General Merritt, General Aguinaldo and the Archbishop of Manila.

Pictorial boards rubbed, stained.

Corners and head/tail of spine bumped.

Gilt titling dulled. 

Small tear to title page.

Fore edges dusty.

Yellowing around edges of pages.