GONZALO DE QUESADA, and Henry Davenport NORTHROP. The War in Cuba. Being a Full Account of Her Great Struggle for Freedom ...Together With a Full Description of Cuba. Harrisburg, P.A., The Minter Co., [1896].
8vo. Original embossed cloth, lettered in balck and gilt, patterned endpapers, lithographic presentation leaf, filled in by hand in 1898 bound in at the beginning; pp. 680, highly illustrated throughout; only minor rubbing to binding; otherwise a very good copy.
One of many imprints of the first edition of this popular history of the Cuban insurrection against the Spanish colonial masters, US intervention, together with a history of the 'Queen of the Antilles' and a description of the lush environment and vegetation, ready to be exploited by the new masters.
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