OUR ISLANDS AND THEIR PEOPLE, AS SEEN WITH CAMERA AND PENCIL (TWO VOLUMES COMPLETE) ; Introduced by Major-General Joseph Wheeler, United States Army, With Special Descriptive Matter by Jose de Olivares
St. Louis, MI: N.D. Thompson Publishing Co., 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio, 16 in. x 11.5 in. Volume I: pp. 384; Volume II: pp. 385-784. Illustrated with tissue-guarded color frontispiece photographs and full-page maps, and hundred of additional full-page color and black and whote photographs. Blue-green cloth boards eith triple frame stamped in blind to dfront and back. Gilt title and tropical tree images to fronts; gilt titles to spine. Light rubbing to extremities with a few dime-sized stains to boards. Most corners nudged. Decorative endpapers. Spines are just a touch shaken. Unmarked interiors. Good Plus. Item #100331
From the title page: "Embracing perfect photographic and descriptive representations of the people and the islands lately acquired from Spain, including Hawaii and the Philippines; Also their material resources and productions, homes of the people, their customs and general appearance, with many hundred views of landscapes, rivers, valleys, hills and mountains, so complete as to practically transfer the islands and their people to the pictured page. With a special consideration of the conditions that prevailed before the declaration of war, by Senators Proctor,Thurston, Money, and numerous prominent writers and correspondents, and a comparison with conditions as they now exist."
Price: $200.00