PAGES IN GOOD CONDITION, DAMAGED SPINE, MAP IN GOOD EXCEPT FOR A LITTLE CRACK IN THE LEFT SIDE, ADDITIONAL TWO SMALL MAPS IN GOOD CONDITION

ABOUT THE WORK

Written by two brothers, voluntary soldiers, who took part in the Spanish defeat on August 1898. As the prologues explains, it was aimed at “reliving today that painful occasion when unjust foreign greed deprived us of the last remnants of our overseas empire.” But also it attempts to point out some public servants who did not behave with decency in those critical moments. It is written like a diary that traces the process of the collapse of Spanish military power at the hands of the U.S. Army from April 14 to August 13, 1898. It contains numerous details about Filipinos who fought initially on the Spanish side; among them, Felipe Buencamino: “who has committed a low and cowardly treason, and the crime of embezzlement and misappropriation of public funds, since it is assured that with him sixteen or twenty thousand pesos, which were given to him for the maintenance and assets of his volunteers, have disappeared. His political history does not begin badly: he despises his oaths of honor, betrays Spain and steals from his soldiers, his own countrymen, the pampangos.”. Very well written. Rare. For the second edition.