A fascinating snapshot of life in the Philippines at the turn of the century, capturing the Revolution, war, and insurrection which characterised this period political upheaval in the long-run to Philippine independence.

Illustrated with 104 albumen prints mounted on card covering a wide-range of subjects from town and landscape views, to local culture and events of historical significance, including the famous photograph of the Hong Kong Junta taken following the signing of the Pact of Biak-na-Bato in 1897, which brought the Philippine Revolution to an end.

The following year Emilio Aguinaldo (1869-1964), the revolutionary leader, promulgated the Philippine Declaration of Independence from Spain, later formally establishing the [First] Philippine Republic on 21st January 1899 — unaware at the time that the Treaty of Paris signed in December 1898 had granted sovereignty of the Philippines to his erstwhile ally, the United States. These circumstances precipitated the American-Philippine war which ended following the capture of Aguinaldo in 1902. Despite Aguinaldo's capitulation, insurgents still plagued the countryside prompting the deployment of the US 13th Cavalry Regiment, depicted in the opening photograph, to the Philippines in 1903.

Oblong folio (29 x 40.5 cm); 104 albumen prints mounted on card, ranging in size from 22.5 x 28 cm to 12 x 9 cm; green pebble-grain cloth, expertly rebacked in black morocco, spine lettered in gilt, edges slightly rubbed, one or two marks, very good.