"The most important project ever undertaken in the line of Philippine history in any language, above all the English."—New York Evening Post.
The Philippine 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 by E. H. Blair and J. A. Robertson, with introduction and additional notes by E. 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 Roy in American 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.
