Luzon and Palawan [Voyage aux Philippines]

₱4,400.00

Author: Alfred Marche / Carmen Ojeda [trans] / Jovita Castro [trans] / P. Revol [preface] / W.A. Burke-Miailhe [intro]

Publisher: Filipiniana Book Guild, Manila.

Year: 1970 [1886]

Size: 23 x 15.2 cm, 8vo

1 in stock

Description

xx + 296 pp., hardbound in special leather brown binding, decorated & lettered in gilt, with portrait frontispiece of Alfred Marche & 14 black & white illustrations; VERY RARE collector’s item.

Volume No. XVII (17). First English edition. Translated by Carmen Ojeda and Jovita Castro from the original French “Lucon et Palaouan”. This volume is a historical account based on Marché’s travels and observations, focusing on the islands of Luzon and Palawan.