Description
hardbound, pp. 1-619, cover with cloth, gilt title on front cover and spine; with 4 folded maps attached & many illustrations; with 1 large folded map in back pocket.
First edition, second printing, vol. 1 of four volumes.
This first volume in this massive project which laid the groundwork for creating a legislative body of Filipino delegates who would represent the native population after the Spanish-American War, and the Philippine-American War, the so-called Insurrection. This work attempted to survey the entire population of the Philippines, including the non-Christian tribes — for the first time.
The large folded Philippine map in vol. 1 shows the territorial lines as defined by the United States and Spain in the Treaty of Paris in 1898 which were wrong and then corrected in the Treaty of Washington 2 years later in 1900 which read in part:
“Spain relinquishes to the United States all title and claim of title, which she may have had at the time of the conclusion of the Treaty of Peace of Paris, to any and all islands belonging to the Philippine Archipelago, lying outside the lines described in Article III of that Treaty and particularly to the islands of Cagayan [Mapun], Sulu and Sibutu and their dependencies, and agrees that all such islands shall be comprehended in the cession of the Archipelago as fully as if they had been expressly included within those lines”.
