. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 : 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 beginning of the nineteenth century; . th, uncut, gilt $4 net per volume (except the Atlas, which is 115net). Limited edition; each set numbered and signed. yin Klahorate Analytical Index to the Whole Almost all the rare
. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 : 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 beginning of the nineteenth century; . th, uncut, gilt $4 net per volume (except the Atlas, which is 115net). Limited edition; each set numbered and signed. yin Klahorate Analytical Index to the Whole Almost all the rare originals are unindexed. In the presentreprint series, this immense mass of historical data will bemade accessible through one exhaustive analytical index. In many cases the records reproduced are so rare that this collection will be practicallythe only resource of the student of the original sources of our early history. Theprinting and binding of the edition are handsome and at the same time so substantial thatthe documents reproduced may be said to have been rescued once for all time. —Public Opinion, Most of the originals are rare and many of them are practically inaccessible to Thwaitess name as editor is sufficient guarantee for the thorough scholarship of thework. — Out West. The paper is beautiful and the volume a fine model of typographical excellence. —Neiu York €L ^^garding HistoricHighways of America We cannot thoroughly understand our own his-tory, local or National, without some knowledgeof these routes of trade and war.—T^he Outlook. jHIS SERIES will be completed nextmonth by the publication of the finalvolume comprising the Analytical In-dex. This set contains much originalmatter accessible in no other form,gathered from manuscript sources both in this coun-try and in London. It was published in an editionof one thousand sets only, and no more can be Highways of America is not an ordinarypublishers enterprise. It mee
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