Atlas of the Philippine Islands

Washington: GPO, 1900. Hardcover. Good. Second (Spanish-language) title-page dated 1899, 24p. plus 30 full page maps. Original maroon cloth. 38 x 33 cm. Ends of backstrip chipped. Corners reglued but rather weak. Covers also scuffed and spotted Content sound and clean. No jacket (as published?). At head of title: Treasury Department, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Special Publication No. 3. The maps in this atlas were compiled at the Jesuit Observatory in the Philippines and generally credited to Father Jose Algue, its Director, who supervised preparation of the maps. The maps were completed with U. S funding and published through the agency of the United States Coast and Geogetic Survey. Exact geographic information did not yet exist for some areas, such as the interior of Mindanao, but, as the Introduction states, the maps were believed "... to fairly represent the present state of geographic knowledge of the Philippine Archipelago ... [and to have utilized] a large amount of new information."