Lot 278: GIRAUDIER, BALTASAR.

Expedición a Joló 1876. Bocetos del cronista del Diario de Manila. [Madrid: Mateu, 1877]

Condition Note: Large oblong folio (370 x 532mm.), dedication leaf, lithographed pictorial title, map and 37 plates, modern green morocco-backed cloth

Palau 85275, 102625

one of the finest nineteenth-century illustrated books on the philippines.

Giraudier, who was responsible for the illustrations, was the co-owner of the Diario de Manila. The work provides a contemporary written and visual account of the campaign of José Malcampo y Monge (1828-1880) to take Joló, the Moro capital. The expedition resulted in permanent occupation by Spanish troops until Spain relinquished the post to the United States in 1899.

The plates illustrate the deployment of ships and troops, local views and houses, the inhabitants and coastal panoramas (comprised of a number of plates).